Sean Litton serves as the Vice President of Field Operations for International Justice Mission. IJM is an international human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression. Based on referrals from relief and development agencies around the world, IJM conducts professional investigations of abuses and mobilizes intervention on behalf of the victims.

Mr. Litton received a B.S. in Business Administration from Miami University and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School. Before attending law school, Mr. Litton worked with Young Life and served as associate pastor for Youth at Christ Church in Roswell, New Mexico, for four years. Following graduation from law school in 1997, Mr. Litton spent three years as an associate with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, DC.

Mr. Litton joined International Justice Mission in September 2000 and moved to Manila, Philippines where he built a team of Filipino lawyers, social workers and investigators who took on cases involving the rape and prostitution of children. When the Philippines office transitioned to national leadership at the beginning of 2003, Mr. Litton assumed leadership of International Justice Mission’s ongoing work in Thailand, where he led the office’s work of bringing rescue to victims of sex trafficking and accountability under the law to traffickers. Mr. Litton next served as IJM’s Director of Operations for Southeast Asia and was responsible for developing casework strategies with local and national authorities that supported the enforcement of an array of national laws and international legal principles in the region. While working for IJM in Southeast Asia, Mr. Litton led and participated in investigations leading to the arrest and prosecution of over 50 suspected traffickers and rapists, and the rescue of over 200 women and children from sexual exploitation.

As Vice President of Field Operations, Mr. Litton currently directs IJM’s casework operations around the world in Latin America, Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia, developing intervention strategies and advocating with local and national authorities.