Jennifer A. Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate General Counsel, DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences
Jennifer Johnson, Ph.D., is Associate General Counsel for DuPont’s Nutrition & Biosciences Division, which sells a wide variety of products, including probiotics, cultures, industrial enzymes, food and beverage ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients. She leads a large in-house legal team and sits on the business President’s Leadership Team, where she applies her business and legal expertise to support business growth and limit risk. Jennifer came to DuPont in 2013 from Finnegan, where she was a partner specializing in biotech and pharmaceutical patent litigation. She teaches Biotechnology Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and has taught Patent Law and Patent Policy at Howard University School of Law. Jennifer holds a J.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle and a Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California, Berkeley.