Jared Genser

Jared Genser is 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 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."

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.

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