Expert resume of Christian A. Johnson

Commonwealth Professor of Law and Business Advising (and former dean); three decades of experience teaching, writing and presenting on global capital markets; consultant for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; former consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; C.P.A.; capital markets lawyer; P.R.I.M.E Finance Expert.

Christian A. Johnson is the Commonwealth Professor of Law and Business Advising (and former dean) at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Christian’s teaching and research interests reside in the area of capital markets and, more specifically, the regulation and documentation of over-the-counter derivatives, repo, and lending markets. He currently serves as a consultant to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a co-author of several texts on the documentation of capital market transactions in addition to authoring over three dozen articles in the area. Christian also regularly teaches on capital market documentation to large financial institutions and government and quasi-government entities. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the International Banking and Securities Law series and an editorial board member of the Futures and Derivatives Law Report. Before entering academia, Christian was a certified public accountant (currently inactive) for Price Waterhouse and a capital markets attorney and a tax attorney for two major U.S. law firms. Christian is a graduate of Columbia Law School (J.D.).