Commissioner John A. Bohn currently serves as a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Commissioner Bohn to the CPUC in May 2005, and the California State Senate confirmed his appointment in April 2006.
In addition to his duties at the CPUC, Commissioner Bohn was recently elected as a Director of the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C. and to the Advisory Board of the Yale Institute for Corporate Governance and Performance. He also serves as Trustee of Northern Trust Multi-Advisor Fund, an international multi-advisor investment fund of the Northern Trust Company, and is a member of the Capital Markets Reform Commission, chartered by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to re-evaluate the operation of U.S. capital markets in light of globalization. Commissioner Bohn is a principal in GlobalNet Partners, N.A., LLC, a global advisory and consulting firm that provides market focus, strategic advisory and active client development services as well as management and capital to U.S. and foreign firms. Commissioner Bohn is also a member of The Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and a director of the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. He recently stepped down as Chairman of the Center for International Private Enterprise and as a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.
Prior to his present position, Commissioner Bohn was a co-founder and Executive Chairman of CheMatch.com (now Chemconnect), an Internet based trading exchange for petrochemicals. He spent 1-1/2 years at Burson-Marsteller, the world's largest public relations firm, where he served as Managing Director, focusing on international markets, and economic resources issues, and was special advisor to the Government of Korea during the Asian financial crisis. From 1989-1996, Commissioner Bohn served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Moody's Investors Service, the world's leading credit rating and financial analysis company, and a major publisher of financial information.
In 1981, Commissioner Bohn was asked to join President Reagan's administration. He served first as special assistant to Treasury Secretary Don Regan and was subsequently appointed by President Reagan as U.S. Ambassador and Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank. In 1984, President Reagan appointed Commissioner Bohn to the post of Vice Chairman of the Export Import Bank of the United States, a U.S. Government corporation that finances and insures the sale abroad of American produced goods, and thereafter to the position of Chairman and President of the Bank, in which capacity he served until 1989.
Commissioner Bohn began his career practicing law in California and the Pacific, and subsequently spent 13 years as an international banker with Wells Fargo, which included 4-1/2 years in Tokyo, with responsibility for the bank's Asian activities. Later he served as Division Manager for Trade Finance, private banking, and multinational banking.
A graduate with honors from Stanford University, Commissioner Bohn attended the London School of Economics as a Fulbright scholar, and received his JD from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the California State Bar and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Commissioner Bohn resides in San Francisco.