Genesis Prize Leadership
Founders
Advisory Board
Natan Sharansky
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board
S. Fitzgerald “Fitz” Haney
Deputy Chair, Advisory Board
Managing Director of Latin America, The Genesis Prize Foundation
Former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (2015-17)
Eli Beer
Advisory Board Member
President, United Hatzalah
Dorit Beinisch
Advisory Board Member
President (Ret.), Supreme Court of Israel
Sir Clive Gillinson
Advisory Board Member
Executive and Artistic Director, Carnegie Hall
Van Jones
Advisory Board Member
CNN Host
Founder, DreamMachine.org and RAPPORT.co
Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan
Advisory Board Member
Partner, Kaplan Martin
Maurice Lévy
Advisory Board Member
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Publicis Groupe
Jon Medved
Advisory Board Member
Founder and CEO, OurCrowd
Gerrald (Jerry) Silverman
Advisory Board Member
Founder and CEO of JAMMEN82 LLC
Philip Werthman, MD MMH
Advisory Board Member
Surgeon, Military Historian, Biotech Investor
Prize Selection Committee
David Hatchwell Altaras
Chairman, Selection Committee
President of EXCEM Grupo
Former President of the Jewish Community of Madrid
Jill W. Smith
Chair, Prize Committee
Co-Chair of the President's Council, Moishe House
Chair Emerita, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women
Irwin Cotler
Prize Committee Member
Canada's Former Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism
Gary Ginsberg
Selection Committee Member
Partner, 25madison
Eli Groner
Selection Committee Member
Former Director General, Office of the Prime Minister
Fiamma Nirenstein
Selection Committee Member
Journalist and Author
Former Member of the Italian Parliament and Deputy-President of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Jack Rosen
Selection Committee Member
Chief Executive Officer, Rosen Partners LLC
President of the American Jewish Congress; Chairman of the American Council for World Jewry
Andrés Spokoiny
Selection Committee Member
President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network
Judge Tova Strasberg-Cohen
Prize Committee Member
Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, retired
Morris Kahn z"l (1930-2025)
Prize Committee Member
Founder, Amdocs
President, SpaceIL
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l (1948-2020)
Founding Member of the Selection Committee
Emeritus Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
Meir Shamgar z"l (1925-2019)
Founding Member of the Prize Committee
Justice and President Emeritus, Supreme Court of Israel
Elie Wiesel z"l (1928-2016)
Founding Member of the Prize Committee
Nobel Laureate
Professor, Boston University
President, Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity