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
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
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
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
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
Prize Committee
Jill W. Smith
Prize Committee Member
Senior Advisor to the Chairman, Genesis Prize Foundation
Chair, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women
Elie Wiesel z"l
(1928-2016)
Member of Founding Prize Committee
Nobel Laureate
Professor, Boston University
President, Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity