Tunesia, 1966
Ahmed Gâaloul
writer and political advisor for the Ennahdha party
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.
Lebanon, 1942
Amine Gemayel
former president of Lebanon
Egypt, 1960
Azza El-Kholy
professor of American literature at Alexandria University
The Netherlands
Caroline de Gruyter
author and journalist
Cyprus, 1943
Androulla Vassiliou
lawyer, Cypriote politician and former European Commissioner
Turkey, 1974
Aykan Erdemir
scholar and Turkish politician
Australia, 1953
Apostolos Doxiadis
writer
United Kingdom, 1963
Simon Winder
publishing director and author
United Kingdom, 1963
Alexander Waugh
author, grandson of Evelyn Waugh
Italy, 1957
Enzo Traverso
Professor of Twentieth-Century Intellectual History
Australia, 1974
Craig Schuftan
radio producer and author
India, 1962
Tunku Varadarajan
writer and journalist
United Kingdom, 1940
Averil Cameron
Professor Emeritus of Late Antique and Byzantine History
France, 1886 - 1944
Marc Bloch
founding father of the Annales School
United Kingdom, 1965
David Armitage
Harvard history professor
Germany, 1759 - 1805
Friedrich Schiller
poet and playwright
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