Meet up with the Senior VP: Enterprise and Finance
2 min readMeet the Senior VP

CRAIG A. JOHNSON, MBA
Senior Vice President for Small business and Finance
Northwestern University

Craig A. Johnson is the Senior Vice President for Enterprise and Finance for Northwestern University.

He has served extra than 18 several years at Northwestern in the central budget business office, the Feinberg School of Drugs, and now central administration. He was appointed Senior Vice President for Business and Finance in September 2018. In this part, Johnson collaborates with Provost Jonathan Holloway to immediate the University’s company and monetary functions, controlling an yearly working spending budget of $2.4 billion and sponsored exploration activity of $702 million.

As Feinberg’s Vice Dean and Chief Operating Officer, Johnson directed all business and running features at Feinberg, including a skilled workforce of a lot more than 1,800 staff members and operating and funds budgets in surplus of $700 million. For the duration of his tenure, Johnson labored to increase the integration and collaboration involving the College and Northwestern Memorial Healthcare. He was also a principal architect of the integration of the Northwestern Clinical School Foundation into Northwestern Memorial Health care.

Johnson is also treasurer of the McGaw Clinical Middle of Northwestern College, a director on the board of Northwestern’s insurance team, Rubicon Insurance plan Organization, and an assistant professor in Feinberg’s Office of Medical Instruction.

Before becoming Vice Dean and Main Operating Officer, Johnson served as Feinberg’s Vice Dean for Finance and Administration, Vice Dean for Funds and Finance, and Executive Director of Finance and Budget. He was also interim Main Fiscal Officer at Northwestern Health-related Team and has held many roles inside the University’s Office environment of Budget and Arranging.

Johnson earned his MBA in finance from Northwestern’s Kellogg University of Administration and his undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, from Northwestern as perfectly. He is a member of the Association of American Health-related Colleges and the Association of Academic Wellness Centers.

He lives in Evanston with his wife, Meera Bhatia, also a Northwestern alumna, and their two daughters.

