Mr. Johnson, currently the South Asia Correspondent with Financial Times, was born in December 1971 in London. He joined Financial Times in October 1997 as Lex Columnist. In February 2001, he was appointed as Paris correspondent.

Later, in February 2005, Mr. Jo was given the duties of South Asia Bureau Chief.

Mr. Johnson is a graduate from Oxford University (Year: 1994) and an MBA from INSEAD (Class of 2000). He has authored 'The man who tried to buy the world: Jean-Marie Messier' and 'The rise and fall of Vivendi Universal' (Penguin 2004).