Suzanne Nora Johnson is a business and philanthropic leader. She currently serves as Chair of the University of Southern California Board of Trustees. She also serves as a member of the Pfizer, Inc. Board of Directors (Chair of the Audit Committee). She has also served as a Member, Lead Independent Director, then Chair of the Intuit, Inc. Board of Directors (2007-2026) and on the Boards of the American International Group, Inc. (2008-2020) and Visa Inc. (2007-2022). She has experience chairing Acquisition, Audit, Compensation, Nominating and Governance, and Risk Committees on public company boards.
Ms. Nora Johnson is former Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. She also served as Chairman of the Global Markets Institute and was a member of the firm’s management committee. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Suzanne was an attorney with Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and worked as a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals.
She also serves on the boards of several nonprofit institutions, including the Brookings Institution (Co-Chair) and the Markle Foundation (Chair) as well as America’s Frontier Fund, The Broad Foundation, The Broad Museum and Wellcome Leap. She chairs a number of endowment investment committees. She is a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences (Chair of the Investment Committee), the Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy Association. Suzanne has also been a chair and member of various Global Agenda Councils for the World Economic Forum. She was a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Suzanne received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from the University of Southern California.