Jared Genser

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Born (1972-06-17) June 17, 1972 (age 51)
New Haven, Connecticut
Education Cornell University (BA)
Harvard University (MPP)
University of Michigan (JD)
OccupationHuman Rights Lawyer, Special Advisor to the Organization of American States
AwardsCharles Bronfman Prize (2010)
ABA International Human Rights Award (2013)
Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize (2020)

Jared Genser (born June 17, 1972) is an international human rights lawyer who serves as managing director of the law firm Perseus Strategies, LLC, as well as the special advisor on the Responsibility to Protect to the Organization of American States. [1] He is also a co-Executive Producer on a new Amazon Studios television series based on his life being developed with Orlando Bloom. [2] Genser is a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and previously was 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. [3] Earlier in his career, he founded the non-profit Freedom Now [4] and was named by the National Law Journal as one of "40 Under 40: Washington's Rising Stars." [5]

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He has served as international counsel to a number of prominent human rights activists and political prisoners, including Václav Havel, Aung San Suu Kyi, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Venezuelan politician Leopoldo López, former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, and Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia. [1] In 2013, he received the American Bar Association's International Human Rights Award [6] and in 2020 he was awarded the Tällberg Foundation's Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. [7]

Early life and education

Genser was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in suburban Maryland. Genser received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1995. [8] He subsequently earned a Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was an Alumni Public Service Fellow and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. [1] He was also a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [8] [9]

Career

Genser began his career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. [1] He later joined DLA Piper, where he was elected a partner. [10] In 2011, he left DLA Piper to found Perseus Strategies, a human-rights law firm. [11] Genser is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, [12] and has taught in the past at the University of Michigan Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School. [1] In June 2014 it was announced he would partner with the PR firm Levick in regard to "the international and local media narrative" surrounding the Nigerian government's efforts on the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping. [13] In October 2020, Genser was appointed by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro as the special adviser on the Responsibility to Protect for the Organization of American States. [14]

Books and publications

Genser is the author of The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice. [15] He was also a co-editor with Canadian Member of Parliament Irwin Cotler for The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time [16] and with former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica Bruno Stagno Ugarte for The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights. [17]

Genser has published more than 180 op-eds on human-rights topics in major newspapers around the world including The Baltimore Sun , The Boston Globe , The Chosun Ilbo (Seoul), Far Eastern Economic Review , The Huffington Post , [18] The Independent (UK), International Herald Tribune , [19] The Jakarta Post , Los Angeles Times , [20] South China Morning Post , [21] The Sydney Morning Herald , [22] The Nation (Thailand), The Star (South Africa), The Times (UK), The Wall Street Journal , [23] The New York Times, and The Washington Post . [24]

Other activities and awards

Genser is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was elected in 2008 as a Fellow to the British American Project. In 2009 he was elected as a delegate to the Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit and also as a U.S.-Japan Young Leadership Fellow. [1] 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 (2010–2011). In 2011, he was selected among the Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation. [25] He is a recipient of the Charles Bronfman Prize and Liberty in North Korea's Freedom Fighter Award. [1] In addition to being qualified to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia, he is also a solicitor of England & Wales. [1]

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  2. ↑ White, Peter (31 August 2020). "Orlando Bloom Developing Drama About Human Rights Lawyer Jared Genser For Amazon". Deadline. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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  6. ↑ American Bar Association (6 August 2013). “Lawyer Jared Genser to receive International Human Rights Award from American Bar Association”. ABA News. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  7. ↑ "TÄLLBERG FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP PRIZE WINNERS". Tällberg Foundation. 25 November 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  8. 1 2 Hall, Sheri (8 December 2009). "Jared Genser '95 Fights for Freedom of Political Prisoners". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell University.
  9. ↑ Goetz, Jill (15 April 1996). "Karin Klapper '96 is Name Raoul Wallenberg Scholar". Cornell Chronicle.
  10. ↑ Ho, Catherine (3 July 2011). "DLA Piper Alum Launches Practice Focused on Humanitarian Issues". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  11. ↑ McDonough, Molly (5 July 2011). “Partner Leaves DLA to Launch Firm Focused on International Human Rights Issues”. ABA Journal. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  12. ↑ "Profile Jared Genser — Georgetown Law". Archived from the original on 2020-09-25.
  13. ↑ Wilson, Megan R (2014-06-26). "Nigeria hires PR for Boko Haram fallout". TheHill. Retrieved 2014-06-30.
  14. ↑ "OAS Secretary General Designates Jared Genser as Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect". Organization of American States. August 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  15. ↑ Genser, Jared (Forthcoming 2019). The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  16. ↑ Genser, Jared; Cotler, Irwin (2012). The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0199797769.
  17. ↑ Genser, Jared; Ugarte, Bruno Stagno (2013). The United Nations Security Council in the Age of Human Rights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1107040076.
  18. ↑ Examples:
  19. ↑ Irwin Cotler; Jared Genser (28 February 2011). “Libya and the Responsibility to Protect”. International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  20. ↑ Desmond M. Tutu; Jared Genser (3 June 2013). “Stand up for Liu Xiaobo”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  21. ↑ Jerome A. Cohen; Jared Genser (15 August 2013). “Harmful Effects: The Torture and Detention of Gao Zhisheng”. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  22. ↑ Jared Genser (25 June 2013). “More Clout Needed to End North Korea’s Repression”. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  23. ↑ Examples:
  24. ↑ Examples: Jared Genser (24 April 2015). "Preventing Atrocities Now - And in the Future." Washington Post. Retrieved 22 January 2016. Jared Genser (21 January 2013). “Ignoring North Korea’s Gulags: A UN Human Rights Council Inquiry is the First Step”. The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  25. ↑ "Jared Genser - Young Leaders". French-American Foundation . Retrieved 2015-10-26.
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