Genesis Prize Leadership Team
Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Stan Polovets
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Co-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
Dorit Beinisch
Advisory Board Member
President (Ret.), Supreme Court of Israel
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 Marvin Hier
Advisory Board Member
Founder, CEO and President, Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner
Advisory Board Member
Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism, UK
Jonathan Kopp
Advisory Board Member
Managing Director, The Glover Park Group
Allen Shapard
Advisory Board Member
Senior Director, Chair of Public Engagement Strategies, APCO Worldwide
Advisor to Nobel Laureates and esteemed institutions
Jeffrey R. Solomon
Advisory Board Member
Senior Advisor, Chasbro Investments
Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon
Advisory Board Member
Founder and Chairman, Tandon Capital Associates and Krishnamurthy Tandon Foundation
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.
Eli Groner
Selection Committee Member
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