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.

Germany, 1966

Bettina Stangneth

philosopher and historian, expert on Eichmann

Czechoslovakia, 1932

Miroslav Hroch

historian

United States, 1954

Michael Shermer

professional skeptic

France, 1890 - 1978

Jean Guéhenno

European humanist

Egypt, 1946

Donald Sassoon

emeritus professor of comparative European history

United States, 1941

Robert D. Putnam

political scientist

United Kingdom, 1955

Timothy Garton Ash

historian and writer

United Kingdom, 1954

John Haldane

philosopher and insider at the Vatican

Tunesia, 1966

Ahmed Gâaloul

writer and political advisor for the Ennahdha party

Lebanon, 1942

Amine Gemayel

former president of Lebanon

Egypt, 1960

Azza El-Kholy

professor of American literature at Alexandria University

The Netherlands

Caroline de Gruyter

author and journalist

Cyprus, 1943

Androulla Vassiliou

lawyer, Cypriote politician and former European Commissioner

Turkey, 1974

Aykan Erdemir

scholar and Turkish politician

United Kingdom, 1963

Simon Winder

publishing director and author

United Kingdom, 1963

Alexander Waugh

author, grandson of Evelyn Waugh

Italy, 1957

Enzo Traverso

Professor of Twentieth-Century Intellectual History

Australia, 1974

Craig Schuftan

radio producer and author

India, 1962

Tunku Varadarajan

writer and journalist

United Kingdom, 1940

Averil Cameron

Professor Emeritus of Late Antique and Byzantine History

France, 1886 - 1944

Marc Bloch

founding father of the Annales School

United Kingdom, 1965

David Armitage

Harvard history professor