Susan Kling Finston works with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune-100 companies on legal, transactional, policy and "doing business" issues relating to the innovative life sciences. Services include:

• Advice on strategic partnering, with benchmarks including successful matchmaking between a leading Pakistani company and a Fortune-100 bio-pharmaceutical company;
  
  

• Capacity building/technical assistance on biotechnology, intellectual property (IP), technology transfer, capacity building, and trade policy for BRICs and other emerging markets, companies, governments and non-government organizations (NGOs); and,
  
  

• Briefings, case studies and related resources on technology transfer and innovation through BayhDole25, a non-governmental organization registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

In 2008 she co-founded Amrita Therapeutics Ltd. with with biotechnology pioneer Dr. Ananda M. Chakrabarty in Gujarat, India.

From 2005 through 2009, she served as Executive Director of the American BioIndustry Alliance (dba ABSA), representing innovative companies in multilateral negotiations related to genetic resources and traditional knowledge.

From 2000 - 2005, Susan led multi-year advocacy on patent reform in India and other emerging markets as Associate Vice President for Intellectual Property, Middle East, Africa and South Asian Affairs at PhRMA. She worked closely with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to ensure their successful entry into the WTO, and served as a cleared advisor to the U.S. Government on international IP/trade issues .

From 1986 through 1999, Susan worked for the U.S. Government, including 11 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, with assignments in London, Tel Aviv and Manila. She served in the judicial branch of the U.S. Government for two years as a Motions Clerk at the federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Susan graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a joint J.D./M.P.P. degree and holds a B.S. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan Honors College. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.