Janet Ranganathan is the Director of WRI’s People and Ecosystems Program. She works with business, government and other stakeholders to catalyze changes in the way ecosystems are managed.

The goal of People and Ecosystems program is to reverse the rapid degradation of ecosystems and assure their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services.

Prior to becoming program director Janet directed WRI’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative, an international multi-stakeholder partnership convened by WRI and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, for the purpose of developing international greenhouse gas accounting and reporting standards, as well as WRI’s Learning and leading by doing and SafeClimate.net projects. Janet has also worked on business environmental performance measurement and environmental accounting.

Prior to joining WRI she worked on business and environmental issues in the U.K. both as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and in a regulatory capacity with the Department of Environment and Hertfordshire Waste Regulatory Authority. Janet Ranganathan received a BSc. (Hons) from Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London in 1983, and an MSc. with distinction in Environmental Technology from Imperial College in 1990. Janet was born and raised in Cornwall, England. She is married to Kumar and has two daughters Angela and Serena.