Rob Johnston has more than twenty years experience working for and with nonprofit organizations. He served as executive director of the Helene & Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Pace University, and for twelve years he worked for the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and its successor the Leader to Leader Institute, where he served as president from 2001 to 2003 and led its program development and publications programs from 1991 to 2001. Johnston worked as editor of the Foundation Center's Philanthropy News Digest, and has developed the database backends on Web sites for businesses and nonprofits operating in the United States, Europe, and Central America.

Johnston has a BA in the History of Art from Yale and an MBA from Stanford, and serves on the board of Sequoia Community Initiatives in New York City and the national advisory board for the MBA-Nonprofit Connection, an organization providing MBA students and graduates as interns and employees to nonprofit organizations.

Johnston lives with his wife in New York City. Though not a native -- he has had a driver's license for more than thirty years -- he aims to spend his life without owning an automobile.