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2019 SNF Nostos Conference

In 2019, the SNF Conference took place for two full days from June 24th to June 25th, 2019 with proceedings commencing early in the morning and concluding in the evening. Our goal was to engage and bring together high caliber speakers from various backgrounds, and diverse disciplines and spaces, “forcing” them to engage into conversations and debates about subject matters outside their areas of expertise. Our driving force was the desire to transcend traditional, linear, and comfortable modes of thinking, and in the process redefine, hopefully, the way we have been approaching and contemplating current complex issues.

The theme of the 2019 SNF Conference was [Untitled].

Speakers

Jeremy Adelman

Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab
Princeton University

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Yoeri Albrecht

De Balie
Director

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Asimina Arvanitaki

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics
Perimeter Institute

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Tash Aw

Author

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Robert Barnett

Founding Director, Modern Tibetan Studies
Columbia University

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Carrie Rebora Barratt

Chief Executive Officer & William C. Steere Sr. President
New York Botanical Garden

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Sian Beilock

President
Barnard College

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Bryan Berg

Bryan Berg
Cardstacker

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Oheneba Boachie-Adjei

President and Founder
Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine

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Mark Brzezinski

Managing Director
Makena Capital Management

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Anna Kynthia Bousdoukou

iMEdD Managing Director, SNF DIALOGUES Executive Director, Journalist

Michael X. Delli Carpini

Professor of Communication
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

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Angelos Charisteas

Member 
Legends 2004

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Terrence J. Checki

Veteran US Federal Reserve Official

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Traianos Dellas

Member 
Legends 2004

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Katie Dixon

CEO
Powerhouse Arts

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Bryan Doerries

Artistic Director
Theater of War Productions
 

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Andreas Dracopoulos

Co-President
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) 

Nusrat Durrani

Media Strategist, Filmmaker 
Founder, MTV World

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Noam M. Elcott

Associate Professor and Chair of Art Humanities 
Columbia University

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Oskar Eustis

Public Theater
Director

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Katherine Fleming

Provost
New York University

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Marshall Ganz

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard University

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Stelios Giannakopoulos

Member 
Legends 2004

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Carol Gluck

George Sansom Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Columbia University

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Paul Goldberger

Architecture Critic / Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair

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Jane Golden

Executive Director
Mural Arts Philadelphia

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Hahrie Han

Inaugural Director
SNF Agora Institute

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Uri Hasson

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology
Princeton University

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Becca Heller

Director and Co-Founder
International Refugee Assistance Project

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Lily Hevesh

Domino Artist

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Bill T. Jones

New York Lives Arts 
Artistic Director

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Claire Katz

Professor of Philosophy Texas A & M University

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William Kentridge

Artist

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Sunitha Krishnan

Chief Functionary & Co-Founder
Prajwala

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Panagiotis Koulouvaris

Assistant Professor of the First Orthopaedic Clinic at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
President of NGO Regeneration & Progress
SNF Health Advisor

 

Nicholas Lemann

Director 
Columbia Global Reports, Joseph Pulitzer Ii and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism 
Dean Emeritus 
Columbia Journalism School

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Pio Barone Lumaga

Founder & Director 
Innovation Design Lab

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Mark Mazower

Ira D. Wallach Professor of History
Columbia University

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Mark Mitton

Magician

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Wes Moore

CEO 
Robin Hood

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Mike Niconchuk

Senior Researcher
Beyond Conflict

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Robin Niblett

Director
Chatham House

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Antonis Nikopolidis

President 
Champions for Life 

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Fiorenzo G. Omenetto

Director, Silklab; Director, Laboratory for Living Devices; Dean of Research, School of Engineering, Tufts University

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Panos Papoulias

Chief Operating Officer
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)

Renzo Piano

Architect
Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)

 

Jim Pitofsky

Managing Director, Strategic Alliances 
The John Templeton Foundation

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Ernő Rubik

Inventor of Rubik's Cube and Teacher of Architecture & Design 

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Vasilis Sambrakos

Journalist / Author

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Thomas Sculco

Surgeon-In-Chief, Emeritus 
Hospital for Special Surgery

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Peter Sculco

Orthopedic Surgeon
Hospital for Special Surgery

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Steven Shapin

Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of The History οf Science 
Harvard University

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Susan Solomon

CEO and Founder 
New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF)

Christos Sotirakopoulos

Journalist

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Alan Stoga

Chairman
Tällberg Foundation

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Henry Timms

President and CEO 
Lincoln Center

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Ioannis Topalidis

Coach
Legends 2004

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Nia Vardalos

Actress / Director

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Effy Vayena

Ph.D. – Professor of Bioethics 
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

 

Stelios Vassilakis

Chief Programs & Strategic Initiatives Officer
Stavros Niarchos Foundation 

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Michael Wishnie

William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean 
Yale Law School

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Rafael Yuste

Professor of Biological Sciences And Neuroscience 
Columbia University

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Theodoros Zagorakis

Member
Legends 2004

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Alexander Zeldin

Writer / Director

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