Kirsten Hund

Sustainability Expert Mining Indaba Ambassador

Kirsten Hund is Director Climate and Nature at Vale Base Metals, where she leads net-zero and nature-positive strategy for copper and nickel operations in Canada and Brazil. A former Senior Mining Specialist at the World Bank and SVP Carbon Neutrality at De Beers, she has spent more than a decade shaping “climate-smart mining” policies, decarbonisation roadmaps, and nature-based solutions for governments and mining companies across Africa, the Balkans, and the Americas,linking critical minerals, low-carbon supply chains, and just transition outcomes in the mining sector.