Kirsten Hund, Head of Carbon Neutrality, De Beers Group

Kirsten Hund joined the De Beers Group as Head of Carbon Neutrality in October 2020. Her responsibility is to develop and lead the Groups’ Climate Strategy, working with the different parts of the company to get De Beers to Carbon Neutrality across its operations by 2030. Kirsten joined from the World Bank, where she was a Senior Mining Specialist, co-leading the Climate Smart Mining Initiative  in the Energy and Extractives Global practice based out of Washington D.C, for 8 years. Before that, she worked in several roles for development and conservation NGOs, including WWF and Action Aid in the Netherlands and Africa ( based in Amsterdam, Gabon, and South Africa) on all aspects of sustainable and climate-smart mineral sector development. She is currently based in the Hague, the Netherlands. She holds an MA in International relations and international Humanitarian Assistance from the universities of Groningen and Aix-Marseille.