Chris Rankin joined Rayten Engineering in 2017 after completing his MSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of the Witwatersrand. His research focused on sustainable harvesting of fuelwood for rural communities based in the Bushbuckridge region near Kruger. Chris presented a poster of his research at the annual Savanna Science Network Meeting held at Skukuza Kruger National Park in 2016. In the same year Chris collaborated with his honours supervisor and other academics to publish his honours research project in the European Journal of Wildlife Research.

After working as an Environmental consultant for two years at Rayten, Chris was promoted to Operations manager of the technical division at the beginning of 2020 with a focus on project management, optimising internal processes and business information gathering. To enhance his skills Chris took it upon himself to enroll in a Postgraduate Diploma of Business Administration which he completed in 2021. Chris is currently contracting to Rayten while completing his PhD in Climate Change with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) at the University of Pretoria. Chris’s research is based on the impact of climate change on maize production in South Africa under different climate change scenarios.

Chris continues to manage and co-ordinate activities within the Technical division of Rayten, helping the division to operate as efficiently and effectively as possible while ensuring clients’ air quality monitoring obligations are met.

‘You can’t improve what you don’t measure – Peter Drucker’