Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, outside General Counsel to the Neurorights Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Board to the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at Harvard University, where he was previously a Senior Tech Fellow. He also served as Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (2020-2025). Referred to by the New York Times as “The Extractor” for his work freeing political prisoners worldwide, he has served as pro bono counsel to five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. He was previously a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LLP and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Genser holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was an Alumni Public Service Fellow, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He most recently taught as adjunct faculty at Stanford Law School and last book is a co-edited volume with former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein entitledThe Oxford Handbook of the UN Human Rights System (Oxford University Press, 2026).