Pakistan, 1950
Pervez Hoodbhoy
nuclear physicist, advises on setting the Doomsday Clock
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.
Netherlands, 1981
Gaya Herrington
sustainability researcher and well-being economist
Spain, 1947
Josep Borrell Fontelles
politician and diplomat, former High Representative EU
France
Caroline Noirot
director of publishing house Les Belles Lettres
France, 1934
Dominique Schnapper
prominent sociologist and daughter of Raymond Aron
China, 1962
Victor Gao
lawyer, businessman and academic
Italy, 1977
Nathalie Tocci
political scientist and director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali
USA, 1961
Celeste Wallander
former US Assistant Secretary of Defense
UK, 1955
Maurizio Serra
European humanist, diplomat, writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt
France, 1976
Garance Pineau
general director MEDEF, former European advisor to president Macron
Ireland, 1977
Paul Lynch
novelist, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize
The Netherlands, 1980
Benjamín Labatut
Author of The MANIAC and When We Cease to Understand the World
India, 1958
Ramachandra Guha
public intellectual and biographer of Gandhi
USA, 1967
Rod Dreher
American conservative and religious intellectual
USA, 1985
Damien Chazelle
Oscar winner, director of La La Land and Babylon
USA, 1940
Ron Jones
author, playwright, and spoken word artist
Turkey, 1952
Orhan Pamuk
Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature
Italy, 1979
Francesco Boldizzoni
historian and advocate of social democracy
United States, 1962
Wynton Marsalis
world-renowned trumpeter, composer and a leading advocate of jazz culture
Hungary, 1955-2026
Béla Tarr
legendary filmmaker
Russia, 1970
Andrey A. Tarkovsky
President of the Andrey Tarkovsky International Institute
Czechoslovakia, 1948
Tomáš Halík
leading Catholic thinker
USA, 1965
Emilie Gordenker
General Director of the Van Gogh Museum
USA, 1965
Katherine E. Fleming
historian and President of the J. Paul Getty Trust