Position: Forward  Nationality:  Swedish    Height: 168 cm  Weight: 58 kg  Team: Edge Raid  Bjorn Johannsen is the forward and leader of Team Edgeraid. He takes pride in teamwork and that is what got his team far. Bjorn is not exactly arrogant but he tends to think he knows what he is doing. He is the only other pilot aside from Amy to have an animal copilot. Bjorn's animal copilot is Sola (ソラ Sora?) (Yūko Tachibana, Wendee Lee) the dog, and just like Luca, has her own commercial for dogfood.

In the year 2048, people are raving about a fighting race called &ldquo;Immortal Grand Prix&rdquo;, or IGPX in short, which is faster and more exciting than any of the existing motor sports. The phenomenon is so big that an entire city was built for the racing industry where competitions take place on a huge track. In the &ldquo;Immortal Grand Prix,&rdquo; two teams of three IG machines, high-tech humanoid mechs driven by humans, race at speeds greater than 400km/h. The teams make three laps of a 60 km course while intercepting the opponent as they vie for a first place finish. The best machine performance, the best pilots and the best teamwork are the only factors that can make them the winners.<br><br>
(Source: Production I.G.)

__Chronology:__ (1994) B.A. from Williams College, Theater; (1997) M.F.A. from OHC School of the Arts, Columbia University 
__Favorites:__ 
- Anime Character Played: Tsume from _Wolf's Rain_ 
- Anime Character: Allen Schezar 
- Anime Series: _Laputa: Castle in the Sky_, _Macross Plus_, _Princess Mononoke_ (and most all Studio Ghibli films), _The Vision of Escaflowne_ 
- Authors: Hayao Miyazaki, J.R.R. Tolkein, Joseph Campbell, Marshall McLuhan, Osamu Tezuka, Shakespeare, William Gibson 
- Foods: Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, Chicago Style Pizza, sushi 
- Hobbies: computers, mythology, radio theater, Sony Playstation, sound design