Shawn N. Sullivan is a Washington, D.C.-based attorney and international legal consultant, an arbitrator and general counsel to the International Life Sciences Institute. Previously, he was a judicial law clerk to U.S. District Judge George Arceneaux, an associate with Crowell & Moring, LLP, a partner with Bradley Arant Rose & White, LLP, and intellectual property counsel for CIMMYT International.

Sullivan received an LLM degree from Cambridge University, an LLM in International Business and Economic Law from Georgetown University, and BA and JD degrees from the University of Mississippi. He also teaches courses in intellectual property law at Queen Mary University of London.