Janet Ranganathan is the vice president for research, data and innovation at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a global research organization that addresses the urgent sustainability challenges related to food, forests, water, climate, energy, cities and the ocean. She leads WRI’s efforts to harness the data revolution, combining open data, information technologies, artificial intelligence and human networks to drive more transparent and accountable management of the planet’s resources. She established WRI’s Data Lab and helps ensure WRI’s family of “data watches” provides trusted, actionable information.