Career
Roger"s fastest 400 meter hurdle time of 49.8 was set on 15 April 1972 in Los Los Angeles This record held for 42 years, until it was broken by Michael Cochrane in 2014. Roger was co-captain of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Champion University of California, Los Angeles track team in 1967 (alongside Ron Copeland and Tom Jones)
Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, Roger Johnson is the son of Roland "Ossie" Johnson and Lorna Waddell, also successful athletes (Triple-jump and swimming, respectively)
After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy from the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles in 1973, Doctor Johnson joined the faculty of the University of Otago in New Zealand, and was promoted to the Dean of Commerce from 1976 - 1979.
In 1980, Doctor Johnson went on to be an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Business, and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the University of Michigan School of Business Administration.
His research interests include assembly-line balancing and management, project management, branch-and-bound methods, facility layout, and flexible manufacturing systems Doctor Johnson"s work has been published in Management Science, Decision Sciences, and the International Journal of Production Research.
Roger now resides with his family in Edinburgh, Scotland.