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Anthony Janetos 

Vice President, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

Dr. Anthony Janetos joined The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment as a Senior Fellow in June 2002, and became its Vice President in 2003. Previously, he served as Vice President for Science and Research at the World Resources Institute, and Senior Scientist for the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program in NASA’s Office of Earth Science. He also was Program Scientist for NASA’s Landsat 7 mission. Dr. Janetos has many years of experience in managing scientific and policy research programs on a variety of ecological and environmental topics, including air pollution effects on forests, climate change impacts, land-use change, ecosystem modeling, and the global carbon cycle. He was a co-chair of the US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, and an author in the IPCC Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry, and the Global Biodiversity Assessment. Dr. Janetos has served on numerous NRC committees, and chaired the NASA-supported Landsat Global Data Working Group. He was a co-chair of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change and an author of the IPCC Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry and the Global Biodiversity Assessment, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.   Most recently he has served on National Research Council Committees on Funding Scientific Research at the Smithsonian Institution, Reviewing the Bush Administration’s Climate Change Science Strategic Plan, and The Decadal Study for Earth Observations.

At the Heinz Center, Dr. Janetos is responsible for new directions in global change issues, and overall program oversight. He has written and spoken widely on the needs for scientific input and scientific assessment in the policymaking process to policy, business, and scientific audiences.   With many collaborators, Dr. Janetos has written and spoken about the need to understand the scientific, environmental, economic, and policy linkages among the major global environmental issues, and the need to keep basic human needs in the forefront of the thinking of the environmental community. Dr. Janetos graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in biology and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in biology from Princeton University.