Jennifer A. Sullivan is IFC General Counsel and heads the Corporation’s Legal Department. As a member of IFC’s Management Group, she provides advice on a wide range of legal and policy matters. She also advises IFC’s Board of Directors on legal and procedural issues.

Before becoming General Counsel in 2002, Ms. Sullivan was IFC’s Deputy General Counsel and before that Chief Counsel for IFC’s power and Central and Eastern European investment programs as well as for IFC’s treasury operations.

Before joining IFC, Ms. Sullivan spent several years with the international law firm of White & Case, where she had responsibility for a variety of international project finance and corporate and financial markets transactions. She also has handled public offerings, mergers, and registered securities transactions as an attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She has held a number of key positions in professional organizations, including Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Committee on International Investment and Development, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Humane Society.

Ms. Sullivan is active in A Chance to Work, an initiative she created in 1997 to help give homeless people in the Washington metropolitan area an opportunity to begin new working lives in a supportive environment. IFC has implemented the program in several communities in its developing member countries.

Ms. Sullivan holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Brandeis University.