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Ambassador lined up for conference
America’s ambassador to the UK, Robert Wood Johnson, has been named as a key speaker at a major transatlantic business conference taking place in Birmingham during June. The British American Business Council (BABC)
annual conference on 7 June and will attract delegates from all over Britain and North America as businesses in the city, led by Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce (GBCC), seek new markets in the post-Brexit era. Ambassador Johnson took up the UK post last
August, when he was nominated by the incoming president, Donald Trump. A businessman, philanthropist and diplomat,
Ambassador Johnson – also known as ‘Woody’ – is a huge coup for the event, which will feature speakers from politics, business, economics and other sectors. In 1886 the billionaire’s great-great-
grandfather founded the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, whose products are household names, including baby powder. Ambassador Johnson has served for more
than 30 years as the chairman and CEO of New York-based The Johnson Company, a private
Ambassador Johnson at a recent International Women’s Day event at the US Embassy in London
asset management firm which was founded in 1978. ‘Woody’ Johnson is also a big American
football fan, and for the past 18 years has been the owner of the New York Jets. He is the founding chairman of the Lupus
Research Alliance and worked for many years with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The missions of these charities are to cure, treat and prevent Lupus and juvenile diabetes,
both of which have affected Ambassador Johnson’s family. Casey, a daughter from his first marriage, died of diabetic ketoacidosis eight years ago. Another daughter, Jaime, was diagnosed with Lupus. Ambassador Johnson has raised millions of dollars on behalf of both organisations fighting these diseases. In politics, he has served on the President’s
Export Council, the President’s Commission on White House Fellows and he is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ambassador Johnson earned a BA from the
University of Arizona and lives in London with wife Suzanne and their two sons. Russell Jeans, chief operating officer at GBCC,
said: “We are delighted that Ambassador Johnson has agreed to attend the BABC conference. “It’s crucial that Britain maintains close
relationships with US business and the Ambassador’s presence will underline how important both countries regard that. The Ambassador himself is a consummate businessman and his words will resonate on both sides of the Atlantic.”
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