UAE
Khalifa AlQama
Chief of Research, Development, and Innovation at the Dubai Future Foundation
Speakers and authors
The journal Nexus was founded in 1991, the Nexus Institute three years later. Since then, a large number of international thinkers, artists, scholars and politicians have published in Nexus or taken part in one of the Institute’s activities. Below you find an overview of all our authors and speakers.
France, 1952
President Salome Zourabichvili
President of Georgia
Mexico
Carissa Véliz
leading voice in digital ethics
South Africa, 1947
Mamphela Ramphele
fought and fights apartheid and climate change, inspires new leadership
USA, 1959
Vice President Mike Pence
48th Vice President of the United States, 2017-2021
Spain, 1962
Javier Cercas
public intellectual, novelist and essayist
USA, 1995
Connor Leahy
AI developer and AI critic
Ukraine, 1981
Dmytro Kuleba
Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs 2020-2024
Netherlands, 1961
Sigrid Kaag
seasoned diplomat and former politician
Pakistan, 1950
Pervez Hoodbhoy
nuclear physicist, advises on setting the Doomsday Clock
Netherlands, 1981
Gaya Herrington
sustainability researcher and well-being economist
Spain, 1947
Josep Borrell Fontelles
politican and diplomat, former High Representative EU
France
Caroline Noirot
director of publishing house Les Belles Lettres
France, 1934
Dominique Schnapper
prominent sociologist and daughter of Raymond Aron
China, 1962
Victor Gao
lawyer, businessman and academic
Italy, 1977
Nathalie Tocci
political scientist and director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali
USA, 1961
Celeste Wallander
former US Assistant Secretary of Defense
UK, 1955
Maurizio Serra
European humanist, diplomat, writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt
France, 1976
Garance Pineau
general director MEDEF, former European advisor to president Macron
Ireland, 1977
Paul Lynch
novelist, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize
The Netherlands, 1980
Benjamín Labatut
Author of The MANIAC and When We Cease to Understand the World
India, 1958
Ramachandra Guha
public intellectual and biographer of Gandhi
USA, 1967
Rod Dreher
American conservative and religious intellectual
USA, 1985
Damien Chazelle
Oscar winner, director of La La Land and Babylon