John E Osborn

Who is John E Osborn?

is an American lawyer, life sciences industry executive and consultant, and a government official. He worked for more than ten years as a senior executive with leading biopharmaceutical firm Cephalon as it developed from a research stage startup to Fortune 1000 firm, during which time he managed all legal, government and public affairs matters. He was noted for having led an ambitious patent litigation effort to protect the company's franchise product Provigil in the face of challenge from several generic drug companies. He also managed the legislative effort that led to the enactment of the Controlled Substances Export Reform Act of 2005. In 2008, he was confirmed by the United States Senate as a member of the bipartisan U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Earlier in his career, he served with the U.S. Department of State during the George H.W. Bush administration, practiced corporate law with Hale and Dorr in Boston, clerked for Judge Albert V. Bryan of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and worked on Capitol Hill in the offices of the late Senator John Heinz and former Congressman Jim Leach. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been an Eisenhower Fellow to Northern Ireland, a member of the board of governors of the East-West Center in Hawaii, a visiting scholar in East European Studies with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, and a visiting fellow at Princeton and Oxford.