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 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
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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, 1929-2018

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

Germany, 1970

Philipp Blom

historian, novelist, journalist and translator

United Kingdom, 1949

David Abulafia

historian of the Mediterranean

United States, 1952

E.J. Dionne

Washington Post columnist

Germany, 1937

Christoph Bertram

journalist and political advisor

Austria, 1947 - 2011

Michael André Bernstein

literary scholar and writer

The Netherlands, 1947

Frank Wiering

VPRO executive

Czech Republic, 1928 - 2020

Antonín Liehm

journalist, film critic and film historian