Mariane Jang
Mariane Jang is a Senior Advisor in the Office of General Services Division of Resiliency & Sustainability. She leads the team’s work on reducing embodied carbon, and mitigating climate risks to the state’s capital assets. She developed two sets of guidelines related to embodied carbon in state projects: to track the embodied carbon used in state projects, and to set a framework for procurement of lower embodied carbon concrete. She also co-developed New York State’s first Decarbonization and Climate Resiliency Design Guide for state projects.
Mariane has worked in the field of sustainability, climate resilience and policy for 20 years. Her experience spans the private, non-profit, academic, think tank, philanthropy, and public sectors. She’s worked with cities to develop climate action plans, supported development of sustainable and climate resilient transport solutions, and managed large sustainable design projects. She has also authored several papers on climate risk, sustainable transport/transit-oriented development and the green economy.
Mariane holds a Masters in Science in Sociology from the London School of Economics, and Bachelor of Arts in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge.