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Johnson is a former Chairman of The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), completing a three-year term in October 2012. He was governor of The University of the Arts between 2000 and 2006.
Johnson was Chairman of Action on Addiction from 2011 to 2012. In June 2012 he was appointed Chairman of Startup Britain, the national campaign to stimulate start-up growth in the UK.
With Stephen Lambert and Christopher Hird, Johnson co-produced The Flaw, a 2011 documentary film detailing the events leading up to the financial crash of 2008. The film takes its title from Alan Greenspan's admission to US Congress that he had been mistaken to put so much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets.
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