Ken Ghalambor

Senior Associate

Ken Ghalambor joined Ross Strategic in 2011. He has more than fifteen years of experience in natural resource management, environmental policy and planning, and program design and evaluation projects, with significant experience providing facilitation, research, and analytics services for public agencies and foundations. His primary area of focus is multi-stakeholder, community driven, collaborative processes related to watershed restoration and recovery at the intersection of science and policy, most notably in the Chehalis Basin, Puget Sound, and Columbia-Snake Rivers.

Ken’s recent work is focused on the Chehalis Basin Strategy, an integrated approach to substantially reduce damage from major floods and restore degraded aquatic species habitat in the Chehalis Basin in southwest Washington. Ken also has substantial experience with community outreach and engagement, development of analytic models, and qualitative and quantitative multi-attribute analysis.

Ken holds a master’s degree in public administration with a focus in environmental policy from the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, and a Bachelor of Arts in urban studies and planning from the University of California, San Diego. In his free time, Ken enjoys spending time with his family, being outside, meditating, reading, and eating delicious food.