Johny K. Johansson was named the McCrane/Shaker Chairholder in International Business and Marketing in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in 1989. An expert in the areas of international marketing strategy and consumer decision making, especially as applied to Japanese and European companies and markets, Johansson has published over 70 academic articles and chapters in books. He is the author of In Your face: How American Marketing Excess Fuels Anti-Americanism, Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2004, and (with Ikujiro Nonaka) of Relentless: The Japanese Way of Marketing, HarperBusiness, 1996. He has conducted numerous executive seminars in many countries, including Japan, Germany, Sweden, Hong Kong, Thailand, and India. He has also been a consultant to companies in many countries, including, General Elexctric, Marriott, and Xerox in the United States; Beiersdorft and Ford Werke AG in Germany; Volvo and Electrolux in Sweden; and Honda, Dentsu, and Fuji Film in Japan.

Before joining Georgetown 's faculty, Professor Johansson held faculty positions at the University of Washington and the University of Illinois. He also has held many visiting appointments in several countries. He was the first Isetan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Keio Business School (Japan) and the first Ford Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Cologne in Germany. He also has been a visiting professor at New York University, Dalhousie University (Canada), Stockholm School of Economics, the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), the National Defense Academy (Japan), and the International University of Japan. In 1988 he was a Phelps scholar at the University of Michigan.

Professor Johansson earned Ph.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and his undergraduate degree (Civilekonom) from the Stockholm School of Economics. A Swedish citizen, he lives in Georgetown, Washington, DC, with his wife, Tamiko, and their two daughters, Anna and Sonja.