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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Les Belles Lettres

France

Caroline Noirot

director of publishing house Les Belles Lettres
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France, 1934

Dominique Schnapper

prominent sociologist and daughter of Raymond Aron
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China, 1962

Victor Gao

lawyer, businessman and academic
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Italy, 1977

Nathalie Tocci

political scientist and director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali
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USA, 1961

Celeste Wallander

US Assistant Secretary of Defense
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UK, 1955

Maurizio Serra

European humanist, diplomat, writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt
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France, 1976

Garance Pineau

general director MEDEF, former European advisor to president Macron
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Ireland, 1977

Paul Lynch

novelist, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize
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The Netherlands, 1980

Benjamín Labatut

Author of The MANIAC and When We Cease to Understand the World
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India, 1958

Ramachandra Guha

public intellectual and biographer of Gandhi
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USA, 1967

Rod Dreher

American conservative and religious intellectual
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USA, 1985

Damien Chazelle

Oscar winner, director of La La Land and Babylon
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Spain, 1947

Josep Borrell Fontelles

High Representative of the European Union
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USA, 1940

Ron Jones

author, playwright, and spoken word artist
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Turkey, 1952

Orhan Pamuk

Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature
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Italy, 1979

Francesco Boldizzoni

historian and advocate of social democracy
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United States, 1962

Wynton Marsalis

world-renowned trumpeter, composer and a leading advocate of jazz culture
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Hungary, 1955

Béla Tarr

one of the great artists of our time
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Russia, 1970

Andrey A. Tarkovsky

President of the Andrey Tarkovsky International Institute
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Czechoslovakia, 1948

Tomáš Halík

leading Catholic thinker
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USA, 1965

Emilie Gordenker

General Director of the Van Gogh Museum
Fleming

USA, 1965

Katherine E. Fleming

historian and President of the J. Paul Getty Trust
Didi-Huberman

France, 1953

Georges Didi-Huberman

art historian and philosopher
Appignanesi

Poland

Lisa Appignanesi

author, historian and former Chairwoman of the Freud Museum