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Abigail Pierrepont Johnson (born December 19th, 1961) is an American businesswoman. Johnson is President of Fidelity Investments Personal and Workplace Investing. Fidelity is led by her father, Edward Johnson.

Education & career

Johnson is an alumna of Buckingham Browne & Nichols school (secondary education), William Smith College (B.A. in art history, 1984), and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., 1988). She lives in Milton, Massachusetts.

After a brief stint as a consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton from 1985-86 and her MBA, she joined her father's company, Fidelity Investments, as an equity portfolio manager from 1988 until 1997. She was promoted to an executive role in Fidelity Management and Research (FMR) in 1997; was the president of FMR from 2001 until 2005, and as of 2008 runs the Fidelity Institutional Retirement Services. Johnson currently serves as a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.

Awards, honors, and society memberships

Johnson is a member of the Board of Directors of SIFMA.

Wealth

In September 2008, her net worth was estimated at US$15 billion, tying her for 15th place in Forbes List of the 400 Richest Americans. (Her father, with $11 billion, is tied for 28th place.)

She is the 35th richest person in the world, though her current net worth has decreased to US$10 billion. Her father is tied for 62nd place with US$7 billion.

See also

• Lists of billionaires

External links

• Forbes The World's Billionaires: Abigail Johnson
• Forbes The World's Billionaires: Abigail Johnson
• CNN Money’ 400 Richest in America in 2006
• Forbes’ Fidelity Promotes Abigail Johnson To President