Dr.
Edward R. Johnson currently serves the National Weather
Service (NWS) as the Director of Strategic Planning and
Policy, a staff office reporting to the NWS Director,
with responsibility for oversight of the NWS planning
process and agency-level policy matters (including private
sector relations).
Dr.
Johnson works with government agencies as well as interest
groups and non-governmental agencies to coordinate policy,
service, science, and technology issues. Before assuming
his current post in 1999, his NWS career included research,
development, and policy-level activities associated with
the NWS hydrologic services program including the NWS
modernization and the centralized operational support
for NWS flood forecast and warning systems.
Prior
to joining the NWS hydrologic services program in 1983,
Dr. Johnson was an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
at the Georgia Institute of Technology, having earned
his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Civil Engineering in 1978.