Kristina Johnson Ph.D

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Dr. Kristina Johnson serves as Board Member & Member of the Compensation and Management Development Committee & Environmental, Social and Public Policy Committee at Cisco Systems. Dr. Johnson is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Enduring Hydro. She is a Co-Founder of Southeast TechInventures. She has served as Chancellor of the State University of New York since September 2017. From January 2014 to September 2017, Dr. Johnson served as Chief Executive Officer at Cube Hydro Partners, LLC, a clean energy company, and a joint venture between Enduring Hydro, a company she founded in January 2011 and I Squared Capital, a private equity firm. From May 2009 to October 2010, Dr. Johnson served as Under Secretary of Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to this, Dr. Johnson served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University from 2007 to 2009 and Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University from 1999 to 2007. Previously, she served as a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at the University of Colorado. She served as Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at Optoelectronics Computing Systems at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She holds 119 U.S. and international patents and has received the John Fritz Medal, widely considered the highest award given in the engineering profession. Dr. Johnson was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015 and she is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She previously served as Director at Boston Scientific Corporation, ending in 2017, and The AES Corporation, ending in 2019. Dr. Johnson brings to the Board of Directors an engineering background as well as expertise in science, technology, business, education, and government. In addition, she has leadership and management experience, both in an academic context as chancellor, provost, and dean of nationally recognized academic institutions and in a corporate context as a board member of public technology companies.