Jared Genser is the Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, LLC. He is also the founder of Freedom Now, which is an independent non-profit organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide. Previously, Mr. Genser was a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LLP and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, the global strategy consulting firm. He was named by the National Law Journal as one of the “40 Under 40: Washington’s Rising Stars.”

Mr. Genser has taught classes about the UN Security Council as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center as well as the University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania law schools. He was a Visiting Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy from 2006 to 2007. His pro bono clients include the former Czech Republic President Václav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.

He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, a Master in Public Policy 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 also was a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mr. Genser is the author of The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2014).

He is also a co-editor of The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Times (Oxford University Press, 2012) and The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2013). He is a board member of Ennaid Therapeutics, an innovative biotechnology company which seeks to bring cures to currently incurable diseases. He is also an advisory committee member of New Perimeter, which conducts major pro bono projects of vital importance in developing and post-conflict regions of the world. Mr. Genser has appeared as a panelist for the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea’s (HRNK) “Heart of Darkness” conference at the Illinois Holocaust and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois. He also provided pro bono services while at DLA Piper for HRNK’s 2006 publication, Failure to Protect: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in North Korea.