Johanna was born and educated in Northern Ireland but moved to England in 1982 to train as a computer programmer with HM Treasury. She quickly moved on from the civil service into the financial services sector and spent the rest of her career working for global investment banks.
She retired in 2025, free at last from the daily commute into the City and is pursuing various new interests and activities which there was never time for before. She has joined the Essex Heritage Trust to learn more about the county’s wonderful heritage, promote the trust’s activities in her local area of South Essex and increase its public profile to ensure like-minded organisations across the County are aware of its existence.