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, 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
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United Kingdom, 1973

Rory Stewart

hosts podcast show on everything politics

United Kingdom, 1960

Daniel Pick

psychoanalyst
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Belarus, 1984

Evgeny Morozov

writes critically on the digital revolution

India, 1977

Parag Khanna

international relations expert

Canada, 1939

Margaret Atwood

writer and poet

United States

Chuck Workman

documentary filmmaker

Jordan, 1947

Hassan bin Talal

Jordanian prince

Portugal, 1956

José Manuel Barroso

former president European Commission

The Netherlands, 1940

Kees Verheul

Mandelstam translator and writer

Russia, 1961

Mikhail Sjisjkin

Russian writer

United Kingdom, 1957

Andrew Pettegree

book historian and Reformation expert

United Kingdom, 1929

John Julius Norwich

historian and tv personality

Belgium, 1956

Luc Devoldere

classical scholar and philosopher

United Kingdom, 1951

Lesley Chamberlain

writes on philosophy and Eastern Europe