Blake Bennett, PhD

Blake Bennett is a Responsible Investment & 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 est titulaire d'une licence (BSc) en sciences biologiques avec une option en chimie de Wichita State University, où il a obtenu son diplôme avec la mention magna cum laude. Il a obtenu un doctorat (PhD) en sciences de la santé environnementale à l'université Johns Hopkins. Il possède 21 ans d'expérience en sciences de l'environnement.