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Jared M. Genser
Visiting Fellow, 2006-2006
National Endowment for Democracy
Jared Genser represents both national and international clients before Congress and the executive branch and counsels them on a variety of issues such as foreign affairs, appropriations, and international trade.
In 2005, Mr. Genser led a team of DLA Piper lawyers who were commissioned by former Czech Republic President Václav Havel and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu to produce the report A Threat to the Peace: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in Burma.
Independently, Mr. Genser is also president of Freedom Now, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization which seeks to free nonviolent prisoners of conscience around the world through legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts. Freedom Now has successfully secured the releases of five prisoners of conscience, among them James Mawdsley, a British national who was sentenced to 17 years in solitary confinement in Burma for handing out pro-democracy leaflets; and Ayub Masih, a Pakistani Christian who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan.
Mr. Genser is the recipient of DLA Piper's 2004 Pro Bono Junior and 2005 Pro Bono Senior Associate of the Year Award in recognition of his significant human rights work.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Genser was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, the global strategic consulting firm. In addition, he formerly worked as an assistant to the Political Advisor to the Mayor of Jerusalem, Israel.
Mr. Genser is the recipient of a 2006-2007 fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy.
Dr. Eric Reeves
Professor of Language and Literature
Smith College
William Ratliff
Research Fellow and Curator, Latin and North American Collections
Hoover Institution
William Ratliff is currently working on interpreting Latin American history and Chinese histories and politics and U.S. foreign policy.
Ratliff is author of China's "Lessons" for Cuba's Transition (Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami, 2004), Russia's Oil in America's Future (Hoover Essays in Public Policy, 2003), Doing it Wrong and Doing it Right: Education in Latin America and Asia (Hoover Essays in Public Policy, 2003), coauthor of Report from Havana (Cato Policy Analysis, 2001), with Jonathan Clarke; The Law and Economics of Development (Hoover Press, 2000), with Edgardo Buscaglia; A Strategic Flip-Flop in the Caribbean: Lift the Embargo on Cuba (Hoover Essays in Public Policy, 2000), with Roger Fontaine; and contributing coeditor of The Law and Economics of Development (JAI Press, 1997), with Buscaglia and Robert Cooter.
He is also coauthor of Inside the Cuban Interior Ministry (Jamestown Foundation, 1994), with Juan Antonio Rodriguez Menier; The Civil War in Nicaragua: Inside the Sandinistas (Transaction Publishers, 1993), with Roger Miranda; and three Hoover Essays in Public Policy on legal reform and political/economic reform in Argentina, with Buscaglia, Maria Dakolias, and Fontaine. Among his other books are Castroism and Communism in Latin America and The Soviet-Cuban Presence in East Africa. He is contributing editor to The Media and the Cuban Revolution and coeditor of Juan Peron: Cartas del exilio. For two decades Ratliff was Latin American editor of the Hoover Institution's Yearbook on International Communist Affairs and for four years a contributor to the annual Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record. He has also been book review editor of the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs.
Ratliff has interviewed two dozen foreign presidents and prime ministers, including Fidel Castro, Carlos Menem, Alberto Fujimori, and Lee Kwan Yew. He has published articles and commentaries from dozens of countries, among them Panama, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Greece, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, China, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan, in all major American and many foreign newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, El Mercurio (Santiago), the Globe and Mail (Toronto), and the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). He wrote from Cuba on the 25th anniversary of Castro's revolution and from the war zones of Nicaragua and El Salvador, for the Chicago Tribune.
On the Internet, he writes for the MSNBC "Opinion" section and contributed to the award-winning Panama hand-over section of the on-line NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, PBS, APR, BBC, Voice of America, Radio Marti, and many other radio and TV stations around the world.