Germany, 1927
Inge Jens
editor of Thomas Mann's diaries and letters
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, 1947
Robert Holl
bass-baritone
The Netherlands, 1958
Piet Gerbrandy
classicist and poet
The Netherlands, 1942
Rudi Fuchs
former museum director
The Netherlands, 1946
Adriaan van Dis
writer, TV presenter
The Netherlands, 1961
Carine Crutzen
actress
The Netherlands, 1950
Huub Beurskens
writer and poet
Czech Republic, 1932
Jana Beranová
writer, poet, translator
Spain, 1944
Félix de Azúa
writer and philosopher
Algeria, 1965
Karim Ameur
dramaturgist
Morocco, 1937
Alain Badiou
marxist philosopher
The Netherlands, 1978
Kirsten Verdel
political scientist, politician and writer
France, 1976
Lila Azam Zanganeh
author A Tale for Lovers and Other Madmen
Belgium, 1953
Guy Verhofstadt
former Belgian Prime Minister and Member of European Parliament
Germany, 1931 - 2015
Fritz J. Raddatz
literary critic
Hungary, 1924
John Lukacs
historian
United States, 1952
Peter Stephan Jungk
German-American writer and biographer
Belgium, 1951
Stefan Hertmans
writer of poems, novels, essays and reviews
United States, 1955
David Gelernter
computer scientist, Judaic scholar, artist
United States, 1951
Jeremy Driscoll
Benedictine monk
Germany, 1926-2020
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
French politician, former President
Germany, 1929
Amitai Etzioni
sociologist and public intellectual
United Kingdom, 1965
Rory Sutherland
PR expert and digital revolutionary
United Kingdom, 1973
Rory Stewart
hosts podcast show on everything politics