executive producer for special projects Michael Sullivan

Michael Sullivan was promoted to executive producer for special projects in 2002 after serving as the series senior producer and then executive producer. Sullivan has supervised the production of many major FRONTLINE projects including, most recently, "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero" in 2002.

During his tenure, Sullivan has overseen dozens of FRONTLINE projects such as the highly acclaimed "The Gulf War" mini-series; "The Choice 1996," a dual biography of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole; the investigations of the savings and loan scandal, "Other People's Money" and "The Great American Bailout;" investigations of the drug war, "The Noriega Connection" and "The Dallas Drug War;" and other investigative projects, including "The Bank of Crooks and Criminals," "Anatomy of an Oil Spill," and "Who Killed Adam Mann?" which was awarded a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton.

A graduate of Harvard University, Sullivan began his broadcast career as a news and documentary cameraman in Portland, Oregon, his home state. In 1976, he moved to WCCO-TV, the distinguished CBS affiliate in Minneapolis, as a writer-producer.

In Minneapolis, Sullivan developed and was executive producer of WCCO's I-Team, recognized as one of local television's largest and most successful investigative units. He was also executive producer of WCCO's award-winning documentary unit, supervising over thirty documentaries. At WCCO, Sullivan formed a unique partnership between that commercial station and PBS, co-producing four FRONTLINE projects before joining the series.

Sullivan has a special interest in investigative biographies and in the re-investigation of important events in American history, bringing such projects as "Remember My Lai," "JFK, Hoffa, and the Mob," "The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover," and the acclaimed, three-hour "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" to FRONTLINE.