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Jared Genser (born June 17, 1972) is an international human rights lawyer who serves as managing director of the law firm Perseus Strategies, LLC, Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect to the Organization of American States, and Co-Founder and General Counsel to the Neurorights Foundation.[1] Genser is U.S. Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, where he was previously a Senior Fellow.[1] Referred to by the New York Times as “The Extractor,”2 he has served as pro bono counsel to five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, including the last three Laureates who won their Prize while imprisoned – Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma, 2006-2010), Liu Xiaobo (China, 2010-2017), and Ales Bialiatski (Belarus, 2023-Present) – as well as Archbishop Tutu and Elie Wiesel.[1] Other former clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel, Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Venezuelan politician Leopoldo López, and former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed. [For each name hyperlink to Wikipedia page]. He 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] Coming from his experience freeing a political prisoner as a law student in 2001, he founded the non-profit Freedom Now[4] and earlier in his career was named by the National Law Journal as one of "40 Under 40: Washington's Rising Stars."[5]

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.[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]