Kathryn Janda

Dr. Janda is a senior research fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, where she leads the Energy, Organisations, and Society theme within the ECI's Energy Research programme. Her work explores the role of building professionals in creating 'middle-out’ change; implications of data availability and ownership in the commercial real estate industry (including green leasing); and energy management practices in universities, offices, stores, churches, theaters, and small businesses. She leads the WICKED project which works to develop energy strategies for owners, landlords, and tenants in the retail sector. She led the COALESCE knowledge exchange project with industry partner CO2 Estates. For Phase 2 of the UK Energy Research Centre (2009-14), she co-led the “Energy Use in Buildings” and led the “Social and Organisational Aspects of Energy Use” themes. She also led the Worldwide Status of Energy Standards for Buildings project.

Dr. Janda holds an M.Sc. (1993) and Ph.D. (1998) from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley (USA). She earned bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and English literature from Brown University (1988). She has worked in the Energy Analysis Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1991-1998) and served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Environmental Policy Fellow in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program (1999-2001). She was an assistant professor in Environmental Studies at Oberlin College (2002-07).