Boards and Committees

Board of Directors and Advisory Board

Stan Polovets

Chairman of the Board of Directors
Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Genesis Prize Foundation

Natan Sharansky

Chairman of the Advisory Board
Former Chairman of the Executive, Jewish Agency for Israel

Rivka Carmi

Advisory Board Member
President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Irwin Cotler

Advisory Board Member
Founder, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Canada

Jonathan Fanton

Advisory Board Member
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
Executive Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Communications, Time Warner

Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner

Advisory Board Member
Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism, UK

Robin Chemers Neustein

Advisory Board Member
Senior Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Jehuda Reinharz

Advisory Board Member
President emeritus, Brandeis University
President, Mandel Foundation

Allen Shapard

Advisory Board Member
Senior Director, Chair of Public Engagement Strategies, APCO Worldwide
Advisor to Nobel Laureates and esteemed institutions

Joan E. Spero

Advisory Board Member
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

Selection Committee

Isaac Herzog

Chairman of the Selection Committee
Chairman of the Executive, Jewish Agency for Israel

Peter Aven

Selection Committee Member
Co-Founder of Genesis Prize Foundation
Chairman of the Board of Directors, ABH Holdings S.A.

Shlomit Barnea Farago

Selection Committee Member
Legal Adviser and Manager of the Legal Department,
Office of the Prime Minister of Israel

Eli Groner

Selection Committee Member
Former Director General of the Prime Minister's Office

David Hatchwell Altaras

Selection Committee Member
Chairman 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