Johanna Ropner (née Stroyan; born 3 January 1963) is a businessperson and the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire since 2018.

[1] Ropner, the second of three children, was born on 3 January 1963 to Colin Strathearn Ropner Stroyan and Caroline Jane Brownlow.

[2] She attended Newcastle University where she graduated with an honours degree in agriculture.

[4] Ropner was confirmed as the successor to Barry Dodd in November 2018.

[5] The vacancy had arisen after Dodd died in a helicopter crash,[6] and Ropner had previously been a deputy lord-lieutenant of North Yorkshire under Dodd,[7] and his predecessor, Lord Crathorne.