Genesis Prize Leadership Team
Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Stan Polovets
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Founder and Chairman, The Genesis Prize Foundation
Judge Michal Rubinstein Shamgar
Deputy Chair, Board of Directors
Chair, Circle of Friends, The Israel Conservatory of Music
Natan Sharansky
Chair, Advisory Board
Former Chairman of the Executive, Jewish Agency for Israel
Dorit Beinisch
Advisory Board Member
President (Ret.), Supreme Court of Israel
Irwin Cotler
Advisory Board Member
Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism
Ambassador Danny Danon
Advisory Board Member
Chairman, World Likud
Former Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations
Jonathan Fanton
Advisory Board Member
Former President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Former President of the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Gary Ginsberg
Advisory Board Member
Rabbi Marvin Hier
Advisory Board Member
Founder, CEO and President, Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner
Advisory Board Member
Former Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism, UK
Jonathan Kopp
Advisory Board Member
Partner, Finsburg Glover Hering
Maurice Lévy
Advisory Board Member
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Publicis Groupe
Allen Shapard
Advisory Board Member
Executive Vice President, SPI Group
Advisor to Nobel Laureates and esteemed institutions
Jeffrey R. Solomon
Advisory Board Member
Senior Advisor, Chasbro Investments
Selection Committee
Isaac Herzog
Former Chairman of the Selection Committee (2018-2021)
President of Israel
Former Chairman of the Executive, Jewish Agency for Israel
Eli Groner
Selection Committee Member
Managing Director (Israel) Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT)
Former Director General of the Prime Minister's Office
David Hatchwell Altaras
Selection Committee Member
President of EXCEM Grupo
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
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
Prize Committee
Morris Kahn
Prize Committee Member
Founder, Amdocs
President, SpaceIL
Jill W. Smith
Prize Committee Member
Senior Advisor to the Chairman, Genesis Prize Foundation
Chair, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women
Judge Tova Strasberg-Cohen
Prize Committee Member
Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, retired
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