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.

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United Kingdom, 1945

Angus Deaton

Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
Christiane Amanpour

United Kingdom, 1958

Christiane Amanpour

Chief International Anchor of CNN
Beck

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

Rwanda, 1984

Jacqueline Murekatete

survivor Rwandan genocide and founder Genocide Survivors Foundation
olga

Poland, 1962

Olga Tokarczuk

Nobel Laureate in Literature
voigt

United States, 1960

Deborah Voigt

world-famous soprano

Mandatory Palestine, 1946

Zaki Nusseibeh

UAE minister of state

Mexico, 1961

Alfonso Cuarón

Oscar-winning film director
schimmelbuch

Austria, 1975

Alexander Schimmelbusch

journalist and writer
samar

Afghanistan, 1957

Sima Samar

human rights advocate
Mullen

United States, 1946

Michael Mullen

US admiral and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
ericli

China, 1968

Eric Li

venture capitalist, political scientist and advocate of the Chinese model
frankopan

United Kingdom, 1971

Peter Frankopan

author The Silk Roads

Poland, 1998

Wojtek Wieczorek

literary talent

United States, 1987

Jesse Paris Smith

musician and climate activist

United States, 1971

Pamela Paul

editor New York Times Book Review

Syria, 1949

Sari Nusseibeh

political philosopher
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United States, 1995

Celeste Marcus

is the managing editor of Liberties.