
Currently, Dr. Johnson is the chief executive officer of Cube Hydro Partners, which develops hydroelectric generation facilities. She served as under secretary of energy in the Obama administration. Earlier, Dr. Johnson was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She is the former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Dr. Johnson began her academic career serving on the faculty at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Dr. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She holds 42 U.S. patents.


