Kaki Comer

Kaki Comer is a sustainability consultant specialising in environmental policy, responsible sourcing, and voluntary sustainability standards. She has worked with organisations including Equitable Origin, Goal 17 Partners, and the World Trade Organisation to advance responsible business practices across the energy, mining, and international development sectors.

At TDi, Kaki supports environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and business sustainability projects, conducting research on the ESG performance of multinational companies in the extractives sector. She also partners with Equitable Origin on Indigenous rights initiatives, including leading the refinement and rollout of FPIC-360°, a tool for assessing and strengthening the enabling conditions for Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) through multi-party engagement.

Her expertise spans sustainability standards development, ESG due diligence, human rights impact assessment, Indigenous rights, renewable energy certification, and stakeholder engagement. She has convened multi-stakeholder working groups, facilitated international trainings, and managed complex research and benchmarking projects for multinational clients. Kaki’s fieldwork across Latin America—conducted in both English and Spanish—draws on a deep understanding of the social, cultural, and governance contexts in which energy development and mining take place.

Kaki holds a Master of Public Policy from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and dual bachelor’s degrees in Sustainable Development and Spanish from Appalachian State University. Her master’s thesis examined the enabling conditions for FPIC in the Latin American mining sector.