Keith Johnson recently served as director of development for Loyola University Chicago’s College of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School. In this role, Johnson worked closely with two deans, 700 faculty members, 18 department chairs, 26 interdisciplinary program directors and many advancement division partners to raise important philanthropic support from hundreds of alumni. He led record-breaking fundraising efforts for the College securing gifts of $3.3 million in 2019 and $6.3 million in 2020. He also managed and grew the dean’s advisory council for the college while pivoting alumni, donor, dean and faculty engagement to the online environment. Johnson previously worked for Loyola’s advancement division from 2005-2010, where his primary focus was planned and major gifts for the Quinlan School of Business and University-wide Midwest Regional Development. With his wife’s recent corporate promotion to the UK, he is now based in London.

As a mission-driven and donor-centric university advancement executive, philanthropic consultant, attorney and sales professional, Johnson has 17 years of higher education planned, major and principal gift fundraising experience. In addition to Loyola, he held various interdisciplinary fundraising roles at Stanford University, Illinois Institute of Technology and DePaul University. At Stanford, he built relationships with west coast alumni donors while collaborating across university schools, institutes, centers and initiatives to secure planned, major and principal gifts for the $6.2 billion “Stanford Challenge” fundraising campaign. 

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and philosophy from DePauw University and a Juris Doctor degree from Valparaiso University Law School.