BERA Staff

Nick Johnson, Mr

Chief Executive at British Educational Research Association

19 Aug 2014

Nick has been the Chief Executive Officer at BERA since April 2012.

He has a considerable background of management and advising on strategic direction in organisations concerned with public policy. Between 2004-7, he was the Director of Policy and Public Sector for the Commission for Racial Equality. In 2007, he joined the Institute of Community Cohesion as Director of Policy later becoming a Principal Associate. He subsequently started his own consultancy working across public policy and research and worked, amongst others, with Chatham House, the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the Local Government Association and Ofwat. Previously, he was at the Association of London Government (now London Councils), where he was responsible for corporate and strategic policy.

Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a former member of the Ethnicity Advisory Group for the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study. He also served as a Research Fellow at the Smith Institute and for 10 years was a Trustee of Young Citizens. He is Vice-Chair of his local school Governing Body.

Beyond education, his particular interests are in the areas of integration, equality and cohesion. Nick has advised government centrally, locally and internationally and has written extensively on citizenship, social capital, extremism, immigration and other related areas of policy and practice.

Nick Johnson's contributions

SIG Convenor Meeting – Spring 2026

5 Mar 2026 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

For current SIG Convenors and Network Leads only The BERA SIG Convenors meeting will be an opportunity to network with the BERA Office as well as colleagues from other SIGs. Draft...