Nigeria, 1962
Folake Wole-Soyinka
expert on race and gender issues in Africa
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, 1981
Thomas Chatterton Williams
cultural critic and author Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
United Kingdom, 1971
Laura Spinney
author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed the World
United States, 1950
Gregory J. Polan
Abbot of the Benedictine Order
Russia, 1987
Igor Levit
world-famous pianist
United Kingdom, 1973
Edward Skidelsky
philosopher and author of Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture
United Arab Emirates, 1971
Omar Saif Ghobash
diplomat and author of Letters to a Young Muslim
Czech Republic, 1929-2025
Dita Kraus
Auschwitz survivor
United States, 1958
Anne Case
prominent American economist at Princeton University
United Kingdom, 1945
Angus Deaton
Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
United Kingdom, 1958
Christiane Amanpour
Chief International Anchor of CNN
Mexico, 1980
Humberto Beck
historian and essayist
France, 1974
Géraldine Schwarz
journalist and author of Those Who Forget
United States, 1952
David Rieff
journalist and author of In Praise of Forgetting
Rwanda, 1976
Freddy Mutanguha
survivor Rwandan genocide and Executive Director of Aegis Trust
New Zealand, 1962
David Harland
diplomat
Rwanda, 1984
Jacqueline Murekatete
survivor Rwandan genocide and founder Genocide Survivors Foundation
Poland, 1962
Olga Tokarczuk
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Lebanon, 1974
Nadine Labaki
filmmaker
United States, 1960
Deborah Voigt
world-famous soprano
Mandatory Palestine, 1946
Zaki Nusseibeh
UAE minister of state
Brazil, 1966
Ben Goertzel
AI expert
Mexico, 1961
Alfonso Cuarón
Oscar-winning film director
Austria, 1975
Alexander Schimmelbusch
journalist and writer