1. Jared Genser was born on June 17,1972 and is an international human rights lawyer who serves as managing director of the law firm Perseus Strategies, LLC, Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect to the Organization of American States, and Co-Founder and General Counsel to the Neurorights Foundation.
Jared Genser was previously an associate of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University from 2014 to 2016 and a visiting fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy from 2006 to 2007.
Jared Genser was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in suburban Maryland.
Jared Genser was a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jared Genser later joined the global law firm DLA Piper, where he was elected a partner.
Jared Genser has previously been an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Michigan Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School.
In October 2020, Jared Genser was appointed by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro as Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect for the Organization of American States.
Jared Genser was co-editor with Canadian Member of Parliament Irwin Cotler of The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time and he is co-editor with former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica Bruno Stagno Ugarte for The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights.
Jared Genser has authored or co-authored numerous major human rights reports, including:.
Jared Genser has published numerous law review articles and more than 130 op-eds on human rights topics in major newspapers around the world.
Jared Genser has published op-eds in such newspapers as The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Chosun Ilbo, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Huffington Post, The Independent, International Herald Tribune, The Jakarta Post, Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Nation, The Star, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Jared Genser is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Jared Genser was elected in 2008 as a Fellow to the British American Project.
Jared Genser was a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum from 2008 to 2013 and a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council for Human Rights.
Jared Genser is a recipient of the Charles Bronfman Prize and Liberty in North Korea's Freedom Fighter Award.
Jared Genser is an avid ice hockey player, playing on both the Titans and the Crunch through Hockey North America.