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Staff Nexus Institute

Rob Riemen
founder and president
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Rob Riemen (1962) began publishing the journal Nexus in 1991 and founded the Nexus Institute in 1994. As its president, he develops and initiates the ideas and activities of the Nexus Institute. He is the author of Nobility of Spirit. A Forgotten Ideal (2008), The Eternal Return of Fascism (2010) and To Fight Against This Age (2018, W.W. Norton). See also his website, www.robriemen.nl/en.

Eveline Riemen-van der Ham
CEO
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Eveline Riemen-van der Ham (1986) is the ceo of the Institute. In close collaboration with Rob Riemen, she determines its financial and strategic policies. She is also jointly responsible for the content of the programme. Eveline studied theology and cultural studies in Tilburg and Rome.

Sterre Collee
senior editor
collee[at]nexus-instituut.nl

Sterre Collee (1997) is senior editor of Nexus and responsible for the digital Treasury. She studied philosophy and Dutch literature in Utrecht, mainly focusing on fin de siècle artists and thinkers.

Golo Vanden Eynde
junior editor
eynde[at]nexus-instituut.nl

Golo Vanden Eynde (2001) is junior editor of Nexus. He studied history and European studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. His main interests include the cultural and political history of European (dis)integration since 1800.

Agnes Oostrijck
office manager and administrative staff member
oostrijck[at]nexus-instituut.nl

Agnes Oostrijck (1970) is co-responsible for the administration of the Nexus Institute. After her administrative assistant training, she was employed as a staff member for word processing and mail registration at the municipality of Uithoorn. Subsequently, she worked as an administrative assistant at a technical security company in Haarlem.

What is the Nexus Institute?

‘Each man fortunate enough to benefit to some degree from this legacy of culture seemed to me responsible for protecting it and holding it in trust for the human race.’ — Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

The Nexus Institute offers a counterweight to today’s society with its one-dimensional focus on science, technology and commercial values, by making the world and culture of the European humanist tradition accessible to a general audience. Its publications and events have gained international renown for their intellectual quality and for offering lively, stimulating and thoughtful discussion.

As an independent non-profit foundation, the Nexus Institute brings together the world’s foremost intellectuals, artists, scientists and politicians, and encourages them to discuss the questions that really matter. How are we to live? How can we shape our future? Can we learn from our past? Which values and ideas are important, and why? In doing so, the Nexus Institute places itself at the very center of Western cultural and philosophical debate. Its annual conferences and lectures have become Europe’s most prestigious platform for informed intellectual public debate on pressing contemporary matters. The same spirit of tolerance and erudition is upheld in the Nexus symposia and masterclasses, in the journal Nexus, and in the luxuriously hardbound books of the Nexus Library and Cultura Animi series.