Ray O. Johnson
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Ray O. Johnson, an American executive focused on business, innovation, and diversity, is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Johnson guided the Corporation’s technology vision and provided corporate leadership in the strategic areas of technology, engineering, production operations, supply chain, program management, and sustainment, which included more than 72,000 people working on more than 4,000 programs that provided some of the nation’s most vital security systems. Johnson has a proven track record in managing large P&L organizations, developing and executing growth and technology strategies, and achieving operational excellence in diverse business environments.
Johnson was invited to participate in the 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 World Economic Forum Annual Meetings in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. In 2009, he served on the New Frontiers of Conflict panel where he discussed new trends in conflict and countries’ ability to respond to them. In 2010, he served on the Rethinking the Global Commons: Space panel where he discussed the current issues of space debris and the international collaboration required to mitigate future effects. He served on the Space Security Council during the 2010 World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda where over 600 of the foremost global experts from business, government, academia, and civil society worked together to address the key issues on the global, regional, and industry agendas.
During the 2011 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, he served on The Science Agenda in 2011 session, where he represented industry. The panel discussed the trends and norms facing the global science agenda. Johnson stressed the need for bold investments in scientific research and development, global collaboration and innovation, and new business models that keep pace with rapidly changing technology. He summarized by stating that we do not have the scientific underpinnings to solve many of the world's most challenging problems.
For the 2012 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, he was a member of the Davos Open Forum panel, A Day Without Satellites. The panel discussed the importance of space, the associated technologies, and the current and future space-related challenges. He currently serves as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Space Security.
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