Robert Wood Johnson IV
Robert Wood Johnson IV was elected to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Board of Trustees in January 2001.
Johnson is chairman and CEO of The Johnson Company, a personal investment enterprise in New York City, and also is chairman and CEO of the New York Jets football team. He is responsible for managing and overseeing various family assets in securities, properties and ventures, as well as trusts, charitable trusts, foundations and estates. Earlier, Johnson acquired American Video Corp., a pioneer cable-television company, and built it into one of the largest privately held cable-TV systems in the country at that time.
Johnson is active in a wide range of civic and philanthropic activities related to improving health care. He is a founder and chairman of the Alliance for Lupus Research, which is dedicated to raising funds to accelerate research that will prevent, treat and cure lupus. He has been active for many years in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International and currently serves as its chairman. He is a director of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center. Johnson is a trustee with the Wildlife Conservation Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He formerly served on the National Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases Advisory Council, which is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health. During the administration of President George H.W. Bush, he served a three-year term on the President’s Export Council.
Johnson is a graduate of the University of Arizona and attended the owner/president management program at Harvard Business School.
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