His work with the Norwegian Refugee Council and International Refugee Assistance Project has been nominated for CSR awards by Legal Week / CCME, The American Lawyer and The International Financial Law Review, and won Legal Week / CCME’s “CSR Team of the Year” awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017. John is the author of Hope and a Future: The Story of Syrian Refugees (Time Books, 2016), which is available as a paperback, hardcover, eBook and audio book (Jechco Studios, 2017). John and the audio book narrator, Gary Roelofs, are donating all of their book royalties to humanitarian agencies assisting Syrian refugees.