Germany, 1759 - 1805
Friedrich Schiller
poet and playwright
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.
The Netherlands, 1992
Jesse van Amelsvoort
student and winner Connect Essay Contest
United States, 1978
Jo Guldi
historian
United Kingdom, 1966
Leonie Gombrich
writer and the executor of Ernst Gombrich’s literary estate
The Netherlands, 1981
Els Schröder
historian
The Netherlands, 1944
Marita Mathijsen
professor in Dutch literature and writer
The Netherlands, 1966
Simon Reinink
managing director of The Royal Concertgebouw
China, 1959
Keping Yu
advocate of democratic governance
China, 1967
Wanwei Wu
translator and translation scholar
China, 1972
Jinghui Wang
literary scholar
The Netherlands, 1951
Leo Samama
apple enthusiast
United States, 1968
Roger Berkowitz
academic director, Hannah Arendt Center
Algeria, 1943
Jacques Attali
economist and intellectual
China, 1975
Saiyin Sun
Sinologist
United States, 1960
James Rubin
journalist and foreign affairs specialist
The Netherlands, 1990
Sywert van Lienden
political activist
The Netherlands, 1946
Johan Simons
acclaimed theatre director
China
Rexa Han
pianist
Israel
Tamar Halperin
pianist and harpsichordist
United States, 1943
Paul Wolfowitz
diplomat and intellectual
United States, 1953
James Steinberg
policy advisor and essayist
Ukraine, 1949
Lilia Shevtsova
political analyst and Russia specialist
Lebanon, 1961
Hassan Mneimneh
public intellectual and Middle East specialist
Japan, 1957
Masafumi Ishii
ambassador to Japan at NATO and policy advisor in foreign affairs