Kristina M. Johnson, Ph.d.

Biography

Kristina M. Johnson, Ph.D. has been a director of Boston Scientific since January 2011. She previously served as a director from April 2006 to May 2009. She has served as Chief Executive Officer of Cube Hydro Partners, LLC, an independent power producer of clean energy, since 2014, and of Enduring Hydro, LLC, an energy consulting firm, since 2011. 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 was Provost and Senior Vice President of 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. Dr. Johnson has served as a director of AES Corporation since 2011 and Cisco Systems, Inc. since 2012. Dr. Johnson was a Fulbright Faculty Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a NATO Post-Doctoral Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2015, Dr. Johnson was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame and holds 119 U.S. and international patents in liquid crystal displays and optoelectronics. Dr. Johnson received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Research Interest

Biomedical Science