Paul Johnson – Instructor

Paul Johnson has been an adjunct professor at  Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business since 2015. He teaches Value Investing and is a fellow at  Fordham’s Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis. Johnson received the Gabelli School of Business grad-uate-level Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence in May 2017 and the Adjunct Faculty Dean’s Award for Impact in May 2021. He also is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he has taught 58 semester-long courses on securities analysis and value investing to more than 3,500 full-time and Executive M.B.A. students.

Johnson is on the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and has been an integral part of the Columbia Business School Value Investing Program for over 30 years. He received the Columbia Business School  Commitment to Excellence award five times (2016, 2017, 2019, and twice in 2022) in recognition of his outstanding commitment to the students’ educational experience, as well as the Columbia Business School Dean’s Prize for Teaching Excellence in April 2017. He has taught courses on Value Investing, Global Macroeconomics, and Financial Markets at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and has lectured at Notre Dame University Business School.

Johnson is co-author with Paul Sonkin of “Pitch the Perfect Investment, The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street,” published in September 2017. He is a co-author with Paul Sonkin of

“The Enduring Value of Roger Murray,” which was published in November 2022. Johnson was a contributing annotator to “The Most Important Thing, Illuminated,” by Howard Marks, (a book Warren Buffett considers to be one of the three most important investment books published). He was co-author of the history of value investing in “Columbia Business School: A Century

of Ideas,” a book celebrating the School’s 100-year anniversary; and, co-author of “The Gorilla Game, Picking Winners in High Technology,” which reached BusinessWeek’s best-seller list and was the number one best-selling investment book on Amazon.com for several weeks in 1998.

Johnson holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Executive Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.