Henry Hall

Partner, Critical Resource Team Lead ERM

Henry Hall is an ERM Partner as well as the Managing Director of the Critical Resource team. Henry’s career has focused on political, stakeholder, environmental and reputational challenges facing mining and energy companies. Henry has a deep knowledge of the business environment for mining investors in a wide range of mining jurisdictions in Africa having spent nearly 15 years working with a broad range of major, midcap and junior companies across the continent. Henry joined ERM Critical Resource from Africa practice where he worked in Guinea on stakeholder engagement and communications at a large mining project. Henry started out as a freelance journalist and commentator working with specialist publications, primarily focused on mining and energy investment in Africa. Before beginning his consultancy career Henry gained his MSc in in ‘Political Economy of Late Development’ at the London School of Economics, and worked on non-traditional security threats in the Indian Ocean region at the prestigious Stimson Centre in Washington DC. For his undergraduate degree, Henry earned a first-class MA in History and Politics at Edinburgh University focusing on African politics.