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Christopher Adrian Johnson is an award-winning journalist, editor and publisher, as well as an author and accomplished business management consultant. Born in British- Guiana in the 1950s, to parents who were both civil servants and political acitivists, he specialises in Caribbeanology, a modern concept that examines the growth and development of Caribbean peoples universally.

Apart from attaining a sound primary and secondary education in his native land, Johnson is a former Commonwealth (Nuffield Foundation) Press Fellow of Cambridge, and holder of degrees in marketing and business management from British universities. His writings on politics, economics, social and cultural issues have appeared in numerous publications.

He collaborates with businesses, social enterprises, trade associations, public and private sector agencies and institutions to find appropriate solutions to underperforming small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He is developing an excellence model for analysing the organisation ansd performance of minority firms and it is hoped, that this method will provide a better public understanding and appreciation of the impact these firms have on the UK economy.

Renowned for his interest in hemispheric Caribbean affairs, Dr. Johnson is the author of `Journey Through Life', the authorised biography of Britain's first non-Caribbean London Mayor, Randolph Beresford MBE. He researched two ground-breaking books - `How They Made a Million' and `Black Enterprise in Britian’, written by businessman, Tony Wade MBE, and produced a brilliant treatise entitled, `Perspectives of the Mass Media in Guyana', an indepth look at the Guyanese mass media, in the post-independence period.

Dr. Johnson completed a recent book on `British Caribbean Enterprises: 1907-2007', in whiche he detailed the unsung contribution of three generations of commercial and social entrepreneurs to the UK economy. His latest work is almost similar to the pioneering endeavours of the late American historian, Alfred Chandler, whose brilliant exposition of American and European businesses became popular in countries such as Germany and Japan, after it was scoffed at intially, by criticis who claimed at the time, that business history was not integral to the traditional school of economic thought.

Although still an obscure figure in the world of academia and business, through his combined media-publishing and business management career, Dr. Johnson has become a visceral proponent of economic parity, social justice and cultural unification, regarding these instruments of change as particularly vital to societies where the history of discrimination and prejudice remain institutionalised.