Johanna M. Costigan is a writer, researcher, and editor focused on emerging technologies in China and U.S.-China tech issues.

She is currently Editor-at-Large at Stanford University’s DigiChina. Previously, she has worked at or consulted for the United Nations, Trivium China, the Paulson Institute, the Asia Society Policy Institute, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and NYU Shanghai.

She holds an MsC in Contemporary Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford, where her dissertation focused on discourse of state-sponsored depictions of China's role in World War II (The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression). She completed the Inter-University Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing and studied abroad at Qingdao University. At Bard College, she double majored in East Asian Studies with a focus on Chinese language and literature and Written Arts.

She has lived, worked, and studied in China and traveled through Taiwan. She speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese.