Jared Genser has been an international lawyer for more than two decades. He is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a public interest law firm, Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect to the Organization of American States, and outside General Counsel to the Neurorights Foundation. He was previously a partner at the global law firm DLA Piper LLP. Referred to by the New York Times as “The Extractor” for his work freeing political prisoners worldwide, he has served as counsel to such luminaries as former Czech Republic President Václav Havel, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Ales Bialiatski, Liu Xiaobo, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel. He previously was a Senior Tech Fellow at Harvard University’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights and has taught as adjunct faculty at Stanford Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and University of Michigan Law School. Genser holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from Harvard University, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. His next book will be a co-edited volume with former UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called The Oxford Handbook on the UN Human Rights System (Oxford University Press, 2026). Genser received the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award and Tällberg Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. He is an elected member of both the American Law Institute and Council on Foreign Relations.