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.

Czech Republic, 1977

Tomáš Sedláček

economist

United States, 1943

Marilynne Robinson

writer

Austria-Hungary, 1907 - 1977

Jan Patočka

philosopher

United Kingdom, 1883 - 1946

John Maynard Keynes

economist

The Netherlands, 1952

Sylvester Eijffinger

professor of financial economics

Palestine, 1952

Salam Fayyad

former prime minister Palestinian Authority

Lebanon, 1960

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

expert on risk

The Netherlands, 1983

Scott Douglas

strategy consultant

The Netherlands, 1957

Philip Eijlander

former Chancellor of Tilburg University

The Netherlands, 1948

Wim van den Goorbergh

economist and banker

The Netherlands, 1959

Jeroen Kremers

executive Royal Bank of Schotland

The Netherlands, 1956

Hans Hoogervorst

former minister

The Netherlands, 1956

Rick van der Ploeg

economist and former politician

China, 1939

Robert Skidelsky

historian, economist and politician

The Netherlands, 1977

Christianne Stotijn

mezzo-soprano

The Netherlands, 1942

Agaath Witteman

combines theatre and politics

Spain, 1950

Darío Villanueva

literary scholar

The Netherlands, 1956

Frank Verhallen

cabaret producer

Germany, 1985

Elisa Tamaschke

art historian

The Netherlands, 1963 - 2016

Pieter Steinz

director, Dutch Foundation for Literature

The Netherlands, 1954

Maarten Steenmeijer

Spanish scholar

The Netherlands, 1943

Awraham Soetendorp

rabbi

The Netherlands, 1947

Bas Savenije

librarian