Ms. Johnson, 49, who is a member of the firm's management committee, is the second high-level departure at the firm recently.
It is a return to Wall Street for Mr. Fleming, who left Merrill Lynch in January, one of a series of high-level departures after the firm was acquired by Bank of America.
The PR firm promised "high-level dignitaries" from both countries would attend, including David Cameron, members of the royal family and Russian and British ministers.
One job, photographing high-level executives of an investment firm, was offered after an executive of the company picked up -- and saved -- one of her cards, which included a picture of three aging munchkins at a "Wizard of Oz" festival.
The two top investment bankers at Morgan Stanley are expected to resign in the latest high-level departures from the securities firm that has been embroiled in controversy over its lackluster performance under CEO Philip Purcell, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Also charged by Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, were high-level employees at IBM, consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Intel's investment arm and a hedge fund group that had been run out of Bear Stearns.
The executive who has produced a steady stream of high-level departures from the financial firm announced this morning that he will retire from Morgan Stanley before its next annual shareholder meeting in March 2006.
Executive search firms say high-level European executives run into few technical difficulties in moving around.
Prosecutors say at least $2bn in bribes were paid for over a decade, mostly by construction and engineering firms to high-level Petrobras executives.
As a computer systems manager at the AT&T Capital Corporation and at the CNA Insurance Companies, and later as the chief information officer for a succession of corporations, he says he was never allowed to run other departments, let alone serve on high-level management teams at these firms.
