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John E. Osborn (born 1957) is an American lawyer, health care industry executive, and former diplomat who has served in the United States Department of State and as a member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

Osborn was nominated to the Commission by President George W. Bush in 2007, and confirmed by the United States Senate on March 13, 2008.[1] The Commission is an independent bipartisan panel established by the Congress to assess public diplomacy policies and programs of the U.S. government and of publicly funded nongovernmental organizations, and to report its findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress.[2]  In 2004, Osborn was appointed by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Board of Governors of the East-West Center, a education and research center focused on the Asia Pacific region. From 1989 to 1992 he served with the State Department, where he supported policy efforts related to German reunification[2], the first Gulf War[3] and treaty succession in the former Soviet Union.[4] He also worked on the 1980 and 1988 presidential campaigns of George H.W. Bush, and in the offices of former Congressman [Jim Leach]] of Iowa and the late U.S. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania.

In the private sector, Osborn was executive vice president and general counsel with biopharmaceutical company Cephalon as it grew rapidly from an early stage research company into a Fortune 1000 firm. While there, he executed an innovative patent litigation settlement strategy to protect the company's lead product,[5] appeared before the U.S. Antitrust Modernization Commission to testify on antitrust policy,[6] and led the legislative effort to enact the Controlled Substances Export Control Reform Act of 2005.[7] Following law school, he clerked for Judge Albert Vickers Bryan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and practiced corporate law in Boston with Hale and Dorr (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr) where he was a member of a U.S. Supreme Court appellate team in a landmark case that struck down the "sale of business" securities law doctrine.[8]

Osborn studied at The College of William & Mary, and earned degrees at the University of Iowa, The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Virginia School of Law. He has held visiting research appointments in socio-legal studies at the University of Oxford[9] and in politics at Princeton University. In 1998 he was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship to examine the roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland and the status of the peace process.[10] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute.

He is a distant relative of founding father and colonial American physician Benjamin Rush, and the nephew of former major league baseball broadcaster Gene Osborn.

References

1. http://frwebgate1.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/TEXTgate.cgi?WAISdocID=n8VlR2/0/1/0&WAISaction=retrieve 2. "On German Reunification," 86 American Journal of International Law 343 (April 1992)

3. "Don't Let Subpoenas Sink U.S. Foreign Policy," New York Times (May 29, 1996), http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/29/opinion/l-don-t-let-subpoenas-sink-us-foreign-policy-080438.html

4. "A U.S. Perspective on Treaty Succession and Related Issues in the Wake of the Breakup of the USSR and Yugoslavia," 33 Virginia Journal of International Law 261 (Winter 1993).

5. "Settling for More," IP Law and Business (May 2006). The Federal Trade Commission has challenged the settlements, "FTC Sues Cephalon, Inc. for Unlawfully Blocking Sale of Lower-Cost Generic Versions of Branded Drug Until 2012," http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/02/ceph.shtm; http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1338428320080214?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

6. Proceedings on "Antitrust and the New Economy," http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/amc/commission_hearings/new_economy.htm

7. http://www.glin.gov/view.action?glinID=172517

8. Landreth Timber Company v. Landreth, 471 U.S. 681 (1985).

9. At Oxford, he completed a comparative research project on the regulation of off-label scientific and medical information. See "Can I Tell You the Truth? A Comparative Perspective on Regulating Off-Label Scientific and Medical Information," 10 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 299 (2010), http://www.yale.edu/yjhple/currentissue.html. The article attracted comment from Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ann Ravel in a speech delivered to the Food & Drug Law Institute (Washington, D.C., September 2010).

10. http://www.efworld.org. See "Northern Ireland's Burden of History," 1 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 57 (Spring 2000).

External Links

U.S. Advisory Commission official biography at http://www.state.gov/pdcommission/members/index.htm

"Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America" (September 14, 2007), http://www.lawdragon.com/index.php/newdragon/leading_07