Drew Sullivan is the advising editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a consortium of leading investigative centers, reporters and news organizations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia dedicated to reporting on transnational organized crime. OCCRP's first project won the Global Shining Light Award for investigative reporting under duress. He is a founder and managing member of the Journalism Development Group LLC, a small, innovative media development organization with projects around the world. He is also a founder and former editor of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an independent, regional investigative news service that won the 2007 Online Journalism Award for best small investigative reporting web site.

He was a city hall and investigative reporter for the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville and the news data editor for the Associated Press's special assignment team in New York. He has served on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. He taught investigative journalism and computer-assisted reporting at New York University. Before coming to journalism, he was an aerospace engineer on the Space Shuttle project for Rockwell Space Systems in Downey, California.