John K Johnson, Phd Email and Phone Number

Recent assignments:- Ombudsman Malaysia: Researched designs for the new Ombudsman institution at the request of the Speaker of Parliament (USAID-DAI)- MP Training Somalia: Training state-level MPs on rights, privileges, and immunities, and on representation (USAID-Chemonics)- Interim COP Sri Lanka: Open, Responsive and Effective Justice Program-CORE Justice (USAID-Chemonics)- Governance and Political Assessment Sierra Leone (Westminster Foundation for Democracy)- Legal Drafting, public participation training of trainers' workshop for Libyan trainers: (State - Creative Associates)- Devolution program development Kenya: (Chemonics)- Political/program analysis Zambia: (Westminter Foundation for Democracy)- - Economic Governance Project close out, Vietnam (USAID-Chemonics)- Policy analysis and development training of trainers' workshop for Libyan trainers Tunisia (State-Creative Associates)

Parliamentary Governance Course for The Commonwealth Parliamentary Associationtogether with the McGill School of Continuing Studies, McGill University, Montreal, CA.

Chief of Party (Director) for 5-year, $20 million, USAID-funded project to strengthen representation and policy-making in Indonesia. Work with civil society organizations (CSOs), university-based, and free-standing think tanks, parliament and government. Developed and implemented innovative "policy-cluster/policy communities"​ program, connecting Indonesian CSOs, think tanks, and policy-makers to enact policy reforms. Policy clusters are reforming Indonesian environmental, health, education, and anti-corruption policies. http://representasiefektif.org/

Europe & Eurasia, Asia regions. Company-wide expert in democratic development. Technical writer for several funded democracy projects, including USAID Legislative Strengthening IQC, Vietnam LRP, and Indonesia ProRep. Conducted new business development in Vietnam, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Montenegro, Ecuador, Rwanda, and Indonesia.Home office director for the USAID Indonesia ProRep Project, Vietnam Legislative Research Project, Tajikistan Land Reform Project, Albania Justice Strengthening Project, and USAID Building Recovery and Reform through Democracy and Governance (BRDG) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC).

* Parliamentary Governance Course *Instructor in Parliamentary Governance e-learning course for parliamentary staff across the globe. University-certified, executive-level training program of the World Bank Institute and McGill University, Montreal, Canada. http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/content/parliamentary-strengthening-program

Advised Institute staff on governance strategies, program design and implementation, and consulted on governance projects worldwide. Program areas included legislative strengthening, legislatures and extractive industries, local government, constitutions, and executive offices. Developed new program areas funded by donors.Directed NDI assistance to US Congress House Democracy Assistance Commission.Developed and conducted two Spanish-language videoconference series on committee strengthening (for Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Peru).Conducted videoconference trainings on establishing legislative budget offices (for Indonesia, Thailand, Ghana, Nigeria, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala). Designed and oversaw World Bank Institute funded study to test legislative standards in Latin America and in Bosnia and HerzegovinaConducted governance trainings in Indonesia, Malaysia, Somalia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Botswana, Tanzania, India, Afghanistan, and the Maldives. Drafted or edited several legislative strengthening publications.

Consultant, trainer, researcher. Conducted live, web-based, and video-conference trainings and seminars for parliament members and staff.

Developed and conducted several projects and consultancies, including USAID/DAI Pakistan Parliamentary Training Center design (2006) and the UNDP/Malawi MCC multiyear legislative project. Drafted several publications for the Center for Legislative Development.

- UNDP/SADAC PF Southern Africa regional MP orientation project designer and manager, - Designed Handbook for MPs, - Program design/ UNDP/Liberia legislative with assessment- - Consultant for UNDP Knowledge, Advocacy, and Support Services in Parliamentary Development.

Key staff person responsible for initiating and developing the University's legislative strengthening program, making SUNY the leading provider of international legislative strengthening programs. Project development/management activities included:- Drafting and serving as lead technical consultant on three USAID Deliberative Bodies IQCs (1996, 2000,and 2004); - Organizing USAID global legislative-strengthening conferences in Bolivia (1996) and the US (2000). - Authoring or co-authoring USAID's Handbook on Legislative-Strengthening and other publications (see published works section). - Designing, drafting technical proposal, and/or managing (from the US) USAID democracy programs in Chile, Bolivia, Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Mexico, Guatemala, Kenya, and Afghanistan.Other activities include:- IADB/Peru program re-design (1996)- USAID Legislative Conferences and Knowledge Development consultancy, - Tinker Foundation Study on representation in Bolivia, - Ford Foundation/Kenya regional legislative/proposal and project design/manager, - UNDP/SADAC PF Southern Africa regional MP orientation program/project design and manager, - UNDP/Liberia legislative assessment/manager, - UNDP Knowledge, Advocacy, and Support Services in Parliamentary Development/project design and manager, - Malawi MCC legislative project, - World Bank Institute: Web Course on Parliaments and Government, - Workshop for Sri Lankan parliamentary staff, and more.http://www.cid.suny.edu/

Drafted winning proposal, and then directed this successful USAID institutional-strengthening project with the Kenyan Parliament. SUNY/Kenya project has been one of USAID's longest running (15 years) and most successful parliamentary projects.

Professor of American and Texas Government

United States Foreign Service Officer US Consulate, Matamoros, Mexico.

Helped lead coalition efforts to enact the first seat-belt law in the USA and several drunk driving laws.

Part time highway safety researcher.

Taught A & O level students: General Paper and English.