Jo Johnson

Jo Johnson is the Chairman of Seminal Education and a Senior Operating Advisor to Seminal Healthcare.
Jo is a Member of the House of Lords and the former Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation.
He is an education and technology thought-leader and actively supports several companies in the same fields.
He is a former Cabinet Minister of Transport, and Minister for London.
He was also a Member of Parliament for nearly a decade.
Jo is chairman of Tes Global, the digital education business providing teacher recruitment, training and software services for schools, and of Access Creative College, the UK’s largest provider of specialist education for the creative industries.Jo is a Member of the Privy Council, a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation and a Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Prior to his election to Parliament, Jo spent 13 years at the Financial Times and won a number of awards for his journalism.
He worked at the FT in a variety of roles, including as Associate Editor & Editor of The Lex Column, as South Asia Bureau Chief and as Paris Correspondent.
He worked as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank before joining the FT in 1997.
Jo’s books include Reconnecting Britain and India: Ideas for an Enhanced Partnership (Academic Foundation 2011, with Dr Rajiv Kumar), and The Man who Tried to Buy the World (Penguin, 2003).
Jo was a scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a first-class degree in Modern History.
He also has an MBA from INSEAD and a licence spéciale from the Institut d'Etudes Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he was a Wiener Anspach Fellow.