Genesis Prize Leadership
Founders
Advisory Board
Natan Sharansky
Co-Founder, The Genesis Prize Foundation
S. Fitzgerald “Fitz” Haney
Deputy Chair, Advisory Board
Managing Director, Latin America, The Genesis Prize Foundation
U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (2015-17)
Eli Beer
Advisory Board Member
President, United Hatzalah of Israel
Dorit Beinisch
Advisory Board Member
President Emerita, Supreme Court of Israel
Sir Clive Gillinson
Advisory Board Member
Executive and Artistic Director, Carnegie Hall
Van Jones
Advisory Board Member
CNN Senior Political Commentator
Founder, DreamMachine.org and RAPPORT.co
Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan
Advisory Board Member
Partner, Kaplan Martin
Counsel, Columbia University
Maurice Lévy
Advisory Board Member
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Publicis Groupe
Former Member, Foundation Board, World Economic Forum
Board Member, Deutsche Bank
Jon Medved
Advisory Board Member
Founder and CEO, OurCrowd
Gerrald (Jerry) Silverman
Advisory Board Member
CEO, Jewish Federations of North America (2009-2019)
Founder and CEO, JAMMEN82 LLC
Philip Werthman, MD MMH
Advisory Board Member
Surgeon, Military Historian, Venture Capitalist
Former Member, National Board, Friends of the IDF
Nuseir Yassin
Advisory Board Member
Founder, Nas Daily
Prize Selection Committee
David Hatchwell Altaras
Chairman, Selection Committee
Leader of the Madrid Jewish Community
Jill W. Smith
Chair, Prize Committee
Co-Chair of the President's Council, Moishe House
Chair Emerita, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women
Irwin Cotler
Prize Committee Member
Former Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, Canada
Former Attorney General, Canada
Efrat Duvdevani
Selection Committee Member
Director General, Peres Center for Peace and Innovation
Gary Ginsberg
Selection Committee Member
Former Executive VP, Time Warner and News Corporation
Partner, 25madison
Eli Groner
Selection Committee Member
Former Director General, Office of the Prime Minister
Fiamma Nirenstein
Selection Committee Member
Former Member of Parliament, Italy (2008-2013)
Jack Rosen
Selection Committee Member
Chairman, American Jewish Congress
Andrés Spokoiny
Selection Committee Member
President and CEO, Jewish Funders Network
Judge Tova Strasberg-Cohen
Prize Committee Member
Retired Justice, Supreme Court of Israel
Morris Kahn z"l (1930-2025)
Prize Committee Member
Founder, Amdocs
President, SpaceIL
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
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