Jared Genser

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, LLC. He is also founder of Freedom Now, an independent non-profit organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide. Previously, Jared 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 “40 Under 40: Washington’s Rising Stars,” DevEx as one of "40 Under 40 International Development Leaders," and by Washingtonian as one of “40 Under 40 Star Lobbyists.”

Jared has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council at Georgetown University Law Center as well as the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools. He was a 2006-2007 Visiting Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy. His pro bono clients have included 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 spent a year as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jared is co-editor of The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Ending Mass Atrocities in Our Times (Oxford University Press 2012) with former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler.

Admissions and Memberships

Admissions
  • Supreme Court of Maryland
  • District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Memberships

  • World Economic Forum, Young Global Leader (Elected 2008)
  • World Economic Forum, Member of Global Agenda Council for Human Rights (2010, 2011)
  • British American Project Fellow (Elected 2008)
  • French-American Foundation Young Leaders Program (Elected 2011)
  • Asia Society’s Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit Delegate (Elected 2009)
  • U.S.-Japan Young Leadership Fellow (Elected 2009)
  • Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member (Elected 2007)

Publications

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Books

  • Jared Genser & Irwin Cotler, Co-Editors, The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Times, Oxford University Press (2011)

Human Rights Reports

Law Review Articles

Op-Eds

Published more than 50 op-eds on human-rights topics in major newspapers around the world including the Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Chosun Ilbo (Seoul), Far Eastern Economic Review, Huffington Post, Independent (UK), International Herald Tribune, Jakarta Post, Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The Nation (Bangkok), The Star (Johannesburg), The Times (UK), Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Recent examples:

Chris Fletcher

Chris Fletcher is an Associate at Perseus Strategies, LLC. Previously, while in law school, he developed his legal expertise in human rights and corporate social responsibility in the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges at the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; in the Private Sector Department at Oxfam America; and in the Legal and Social Compliance Departments at Life is good, Inc. He has also worked for several international advocacy organizations and completed stints at the University of Virginia’s Tibet Governance and Practice Forum, U.S. Department of State, and World Bank.

Chris holds a B.A. in international studies, cum laude and with departmental honors, from Macalester College, and a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. He was a 2005-2006 Thomas J. Watson Fellow, which provided the opportunity to travel the world in order to photograph and document how the Tibetan Diaspora preserves their cultural heritage in the midst of adapting to new host nations.