Blake Bennett, PhD

Blake Bennett is a Governance and Stewardship Analyst at Janus Henderson Investors, a position he has held since 2021. In this role, he is responsible for working on implementation of 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. Prior to earning his PhD, he studied air pollution at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2007 to 2012 and water pollution for the US Environmental Protection Agency from 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 19 years of environmental science experience.