Blake Bennett, PhD

Blake Bennett is a Responsible Investment and Governance Analyst at Janus Henderson Investors, a position he has held since 2021. In this role, he is responsible for conducting ESG investment research and implementation of the firm’s governance and stewardship policies. Prior to joining the firm, Blake was an operations and policy analyst at the State of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality from 2017. Before this, he developed and taught public health courses and conducted environmental health science research at Portland State University and American University. He was also an assistant director of public health scholars at American University from 2012 to 2015. Before that, he was a predoctorate fellow, focused on air pollution at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health for five years. He began his career as a toxicologist, concentrating on water pollution for the US Environmental Protection Agency in 2005.

Blake received a Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences with a minor in chemistry from Wichita State University, graduating magna cum laude. He earned a PhD in environmental health sciences from Johns Hopkins University. He has 20 years of environmental science experience.