Emily Hersh is the founder and CEO of Luna Lithium, an exploration company developing the Pilot Peak lithium brine exploration project in Nevada. She is a proven entrepreneur who has successfully managed mining and energy exploration projects throughout South America. She also identified and helped advance Challenger Exploration’s Hualilan Gold Project in San Juan, Argentina. Emily is a strategic advisor with global experience across the lithium lifecycle from exploration to advanced processing and batteries, including advisory roles with sediment-based American Lithium in Nevada and Peru, and Pure Lithium – a Boston-based lithium metal battery technology company. 
 
Emily is a geopolitical economist who has been a non-resident fellow at the Payne Institute of the Colorado School of Mines since 2019. Emily founded and ran The Bubble, an English-language news company in Argentina for over eight years and has launched or co-hosted three audio and video media properties including The Minerals Manhattan Project, the Weekly Recharge video series, and the Global Lithium Podcast. She is regularly quoted in The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, S&P Global, and other publications related to lithium and battery materials. She has appeared on CNN and Al-Jazeera America to comment on Argentina’s economy.
 
Emily was a founder of  the Association of Women in Energy and Sustainability (AMES) in Argentina and Women in Mining (WIM) Argentina. She holds a B.S. in Economics from Tulane University and an M.A. in International Affairs from American University.