The Netherlands, 1942 - 2007
Ad Geelhoed
top government official and law expert
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, 1956
Hans Maarten van den Brink
writer and cultural policy maker
United States, 1933 - 2004
Susan Sontag
writer and philosopher
The Netherlands, 1950
Elmer Schönberger
author and composer
United Kingdom, 1924 – 2019
John Richardson
art historian, Picasso biographer
The Netherlands, 1961
Michel Krielaars
journalist, Russia specialist
United States, 1932
Peter Eisenman
architect
United States, 1951
Esther Dyson
information technologist
The Netherlands, 1951
Ian Buruma
observer and analyst of the Eastern and Western worlds
Germany, 1944
Bernhard Schlink
writer and law professor
United Kingdom, 1955
Simon Rattle
conductor
United Kingdom, 1948
Ian McEwan
writer
United States, 1931 - 2007
Richard Rorty
pragmatist philosopher
Romania, 1954
Mircea Mihaies
cultural scholar
Cameroon, 1960
Achille Mbembe
eminent African intellectual and research professor
United States, 1952
Peggy Boyers
poet
France, 1929 - 2005
Nathalie Babel
collected and published the oeuvre of her father, Isaac Babel
United States, 1940
John Vinocur
journalist
United States
Charles Kupchan
international relations expert
Hungary, 1929 - 2019
Ágnes Heller
political philosopher
United States, 1958
Mark Danner
journalist, specialized in international relations
South Africa, 1951
Joseph Weiler
European law specialist
Latvia, 1937
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
former President of Latvia
Víctor Pérez Díaz
sociologist