Name Jared Genser | Role Columnist | |
Jared genser advocates for freedom
Jared Genser is a human rights activist who serves as Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, LLC and Founder of Freedom Now, an independent non-governmental organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide. In addition, he is an Associate of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and a columnist for The Diplomat, the premier international affairs magazine focused on the Asia-Pacific. He has been referred to in the media as "The Extractor" – a leading human-rights lawyer on behalf of prisoners of conscience and the arbitrarily detained. He served as international counsel to Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during her latter five years under house arrest. And he currently represents Liu Xia, widow of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo. Previously, he was a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, the global strategy consulting firm. In 2013, he received the American Bar Association's International Human Rights Award. He was previously named by the National Law Journal as one of "40 Under 40: Washington's Rising Stars."
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- Jared genser advocates for freedom
- Full show 6 29 12 conversations with great minds jared genser
- Early life and education
- Career
- Books
- Other activities
- References
Full show 6 29 12 conversations with great minds jared genser
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. 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. He was also a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Career
Genser began his career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. He later joined the government affairs practice of the global law firm DLA Piper, where he was elected a partner. In 2011, he left DLA Piper to found Perseus Strategies, a human-rights law firm. Genser has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center as well as the University of Michigan Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was a 2006-2007 Visiting Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy. His pro bono clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel. 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.
Books
Genser is the author of The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice. 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 and with former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica Bruno Stagno Ugarte for The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights.
Genser has published more than 70 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, The Independent (UK), International Herald Tribune, The Jakarta Post, Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Nation (Thailand), The Star (South Africa), The Times (UK), The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Other activities
Genser is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum from 2008-2013. In 2011, he was selected among the Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation.
Genser is a board member of Ennaid Therapeutics, a biotechnology company. He is also an advisory committee member of New Perimeter, DLA Piper's affiliated non-governmental organization that works on major human-rights and humanitarian projects worldwide.