Genesis Prize Leadership
Trustees
Advisory Board
Natan Sharansky
Trustee; Chairman, Advisory Board
Dorit Beinisch
Advisory Board Member
President (Ret.), Supreme Court of Israel
Irwin Cotler
Advisory Board Member
Canada's Former Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism
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
Sir Clive Gillinson
Advisory Board Member
Executive and Artistic Director, Carnegie Hall
Gary Ginsberg
Advisory Board Member
Partner, 25madison
Rabbi Marvin Hier
Advisory Board Member
Founder, CEO and President, Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance
Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan
Advisory Board Member
Partner, Kaplan Martin
Jonathan Kopp
Advisory Board Member
Partner, Finsburg Glover Hering
Maurice Lévy
Advisory Board Member
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Publicis Groupe
Jon Medved
Advisory Board Member
Founder and CEO, OurCrowd
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
Philip Werthman, MD MMH
Advisory Board Member
Surgeon, Military Historian, Biotech Investor
Selection Committee
Sana Britavsky
Selection Committee Member
Deputy CEO (2013-2024), The Genesis Prize Foundation
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
Former President of the Jewish Community of Madrid
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
Co-Chair of the President's Council, Moishe House
Chair Emerita, 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