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.

Andrea

Italy, 1987

Andrea Marcolongo

classicist and writer

Switzerland, 1990

Flavia Kleiner

political activist

Tunesia, 1985

Intissar Kherigi

political sociologist

Canada, 1978

Rebecca Foon

musician and climate activist
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United Kingdom, 1964

Ian Bostridge

world-renowned tenor

Italy, 1956

Edoardo Albinati

novelist and journalist

Hong Kong, 1939

Adrienne Clarkson

journalist and stateswoman

Romania, 1920 - 2023

Benjamin Ferencz

last Nuremberg prosecutor

Spain, 1948

Ana Palacio

stateswoman and lawyer
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India, 1946

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Indian statesman
aiweiwei

China, 1957

Ai Weiwei

artist and political activist

United States, 1953

Michael G. Vickers

CIA officer and intelligence leader
Natasha-Vita-More

United States, 1950

Natasha Vita-More

transhumanist designer and author
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Germany, 1975

Caroline Sommerfeld

intellectual of the New Right
Michael-Hayden

United States, 1945

Michael Hayden

former director CIA and NSA
John-Hare

United Kingdom, 1949

John Hare 

philosopher of religion
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Syria, 1986

Kassem Eid 

Palestinian-Syrian activist
Peter-Turkson

Ghana, 1948

Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson

Cardinal
Wole Soyinka

Nigeria, 1934

Wole Soyinka

Nobel Prize-winning author
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Sweden, 1972

Anders Sandberg

transhumanist and expert on A.I.
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United States, 1957

David S. Rose

tech entrepreneur and investor