Luke Balleny is Manager, Energy Minerals and Circularity with the US Energy Program, part of the WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition. He has over a decade of experience working with companies, governments, international organizations and civil society to assist responsible mining and metals companies in their efforts to contribute effectively to sustainable development and to meet the demands of the energy transition.

Prior to joining WRI, he was the Director of Standards and Partnerships at the Copper Mark, an assurance framework to promote responsible practices across the copper, molybdenum, nickel and zinc value chains. While at the Copper Mark he led the framework’s expansion to include producers of three new metals and led a two-year revision of the Copper Mark’s primary standard, from design through to team training.  

Before that, he was a Manager at the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) where he led their tax, transparency and governance work, helped to develop ICMM’s Mining Principles and managed ICMM’s commodity and national/regional association members.

Luke has a BA from Brown University in International Relations and a MA from SOAS, University of London in International Studies and Diplomacy. Luke lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife and two children.