United Kingdom, 1945
Simon Schama
historian
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.
United States, 1943 - 2022
Todd Gitlin
sociologist, cultural critic and former activits
The Netherlands, 1929 – 2021
Bernard Haitink
conductor
United States, 1940
Frido Mann
psychologist, writer, grandson of Thomas Mann
United Kingdom, 1936
Peter Mayer
publisher
Spain, 1942
Jordi Savall
Baroque musician
India, 1970
Siddhartha Mukherjee
oncologist
Rhodesia, 1949
A.C. Grayling
philosopher and founder of the New College of the Humanities
Australia, 1963
Julian Savulescu
bio-ethicist
United Kingdom, 1942
Martin Rees
astrophysicist
Germany, 1954
Julian Nida-Rümelin
philosopher
Canada, 1943
Patricia Churchland
philosopher
France, 1936
Jean-Pierre Changeux
neurobiologist
Portugal, 1939
António-Pedro Vasconcelos
film director
The Netherlands, 1950
Paul van Tongeren
moral philosopher
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