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Safae el Khannoussi

Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.

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Jonas Kooyman (1989) studeerde journalistiek aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en literatuur aan The New School in New York. Als journalist schreef hij voor NRC over de luxe-industrie, het stadsleven en de tijdsgeest, maar hij zegde zijn baan op om fulltime verslag te doen van de nieuwe stedelijke elite. Hij muntte de term havermelkelite en begon een Instagrampagina en een nieuwsbrief om deze yuppen en zichzelf een spiegel voor te houden. Inmiddels heeft hij meer dan 173.000 volgers en 18.000 abonnees.

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Milio van de Kamp

Milio van de Kamp is socioloog en werkzaam als universitair docent aan de UvA. In 2022 werd hij verkozen tot FMG Docent van het Jaar. Opgegroeid in armoede geeft hij een unieke, persoonlijke blik op maatschappelijke ongelijkheid. Eerdere stukken over kansenongelijkheid en armoede zijn onder andere verschenen in de Volkskrant en Het Parool.

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Sander Schimmelpenninck

Sander Schimmelpenninck (1984) is journalist, columnist bij de Volkskrant en presentator van de Zelfspodcast. In de tv-serie Sander en de kloof stelde hij kansenongelijkheid aan de kaak, in zijn boek Sander en de brug (ruim 27.000 verkocht) deed hij voorstellen om daar iets aan te doen.

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Robert Harris

ROBERT HARRIS is the author of nine best-selling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer, Conspirata, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy. Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in the village of Kintbury, England, with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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Teun van de Keuken

Teun Gerrit (Teun) van de Keuken is a Dutch journalist and television and radio program maker.

In 2015 Van de Keuken wrote the book Puur en Eerlijk (Pure and Fair) about misleading consumers. Goed Volk, a novel based on Van de Keuken's youth, followed in 2017. De

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Murat Isik

Murat Isik is een Nederlandse schrijver en jurist van Zaza-Turkse afkomst. Hij studeerde rechtsgeleerdheid aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en San Francisco State University.

Murat Isik is a Dutch author and lawyer of Zaza-Turkish descent. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and at San Francisco State University.

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Koen Schoors

Koen Schoors is professor aan de Universiteit Gent. Hij richt zich in zijn onderzoek voornamelijk op het bank-en financiewezen, de bedrijfsfinanciering en buitenlandse directe investeringen. In zijn opleiding en carrière stond de Russische economie vaak centraal. Zo is hij momenteel directeur van CERISE (Centrum voor Russische Internationale Socio-politieke en Economische studies).

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Sunil Amrith

Sunil Amrith is Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of History, and a Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics.

Sunil Amrith grew up in Singapore, and received a B.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) from the University of Cambridge. He was a research fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge (2004–2006) and taught modern Asian history at Birkbeck College of the University of London (2006–2014) prior to joining the faculty of Harvard University, where he is currently Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and a professor of history. He is also a director of the Harvard Center for History and Economics. His additional publications include Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeas

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Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch art historian, journalist and novelist.

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Rob van Essen

Rob van Essen (1963). Schrijver, vertaler, recensent Angelsaksische literatuur voor NRC Handelsblad.

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Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty (French: [tɔma pikɛti]; born May 7, 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of the best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasizes the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. The book argues that the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future. To address this problem, he proposes redistribution through a global tax on wealth.

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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Dutch literature. He has more than forty titles to his name, including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, scientific studies, columns, translations and anthologies. Exhibiting a powerful style and classical command of form, his work has contributed to literary revival and growing engagement, both of which are explicitly expressed in his work as a columnist and television documentary maker as well.

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Tommy Wieringa

Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967 in Goor, Overijssel) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboat.

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Adriaan van Dis

Adriaan van Dis is a Dutch writer, journalist and TV presenter, who debuted as writer in 1983 with the novel Nathan Sid. That same year he debuted as a TV presenter as host for the book talkshow Hier is... Adriaan van Dis. The show lasted until 1992 and was repeated once in 2013 in honor of the Dutch book week and every year since, once a year during the Dutch book week. In 2017 he said that it was the last show unless he would be able to get a very special writer in the programme. He succeeded and interviewed Stephen Fry in March 2018 in what will probably be the last Hier is... Adriaan van Dis

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Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.

Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.

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Mary Beard

Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Newnham College. She is the Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and author of the blog "A Don's Life", which appears on The Times as a regular column. Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist".

Mary Beard, an only child, was born on 1 January 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her father, Roy Whitbread Beard, worked as an architect in Shrewsbury. She recalled him as "a raffish public-schoolboy type and a complete wastrel, but very engaging". Her mother Joyce Emily Beard was a headmistress and an enthusiastic rea

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Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן‎; born 5 March 1934 - died 27 March 2024), was an Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, notable for his work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology.

With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973, Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982), and developed Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979). He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory. Currently, he is professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology.

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Nigel Warburton

Nigel Warburton is Senior Lecturer at the Open University and author of a number of popular books about philosophy.

Warburton received a BA from the University of Bristol and a PhD from Darwin College, Cambridge and was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham before joining the Department of Philosophy at the Open University in 1994.

He runs a popular philosophy weblog Virtual Philosopher and with David Edmonds regularly podcasts interviews with top philosophers on a range of subjects at Philosophy Bites. He also podcasts chapters from his book Philosophy: The Classics.

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Edward Rutherfurd

Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSS

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco

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Geert Noels

Noels is licentiaat in de Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen. Hij studeerde aan de Handelshogeschool in Antwerpen en behaalde in 1990 tevens een MBA aan de KU Leuven.

Hij verwierf bekendheid in de financiële wereld als hoofdeconoom van Petercam. In 2009 werd bekend dat hij zich terugtrok als bestuurder van Petercam en het bedrijf verliet. Vervolgens startte hij Econopolis, een vermogensbeheerder en financieel-economisch advieshuis. Ook is hij bestuurder bij de Koninklijke Schenking waar hij aangetrokken werd om de negatieve resultaten proberen om te buigen.

Bij het brede publiek is hij vooral bekend door zijn columns in verschillende kranten en zijn vaste bijdrages in het financieel magazine Trends. Ook is hij in de Nederlandstalige en Fra

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Julien de Wit

Julien De Wit is an author, columnist, publicist, and speaker. In addition, he is professionally active as an entrepreneur, strategy and communication consultant for a variety of small, medium, and large clients. He is also pursuing a PhD in geopolitics.

Julien likes to describe himself as a broker of ideas. He writes, reads, thinks, and speaks—that’s essentially what it boils down to. As a member of several think tanks, he regularly contributes articles on various topics, including international security and education.

Julien was for many years the chair of the Flemish Student Association and spokesperson for the Antwerp student consultation. He has a background in law and international relations.

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