Profile of Dr. Anthony Janetos

Joint Global Change Research Institute
8400 Baltimore Ave., Suite 201
College Park, MD 20740
Phone: (301) 314-7843
Anthony.Janetos@pnl.gov

Current position:  Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute

Education: Ph.D. Biology, Princeton University, 1980

Dr. Anthony Janetos is the Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute. Previously, he served as Vice President and Director of the Global Change Program at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; 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 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 was a co-convening lead author of the Climate Change Science Program’s Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity.  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. With many collaborators, he 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 ensure that basic human needs are a primary consideration of the environmental science and policy communities.