Nobel Week Dialogue
Our line up of panellists participating in this year's Nobel Week Dialogue include world-leading experts and inspiring thought leaders. Keep checking back for the latest updates to the panellist list.
Nobel Prize laureate
Frances Arnold
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018.
Frances Arnold received the chemistry prize for pioneering directed enzyme evolution methods used widely for applications across medicine, consumer products, agriculture, fuels and chemicals.
Gautam Bhan
Gautam Bhan is an urbanist whose work focuses on urban poverty, inequality, social protection, and housing.
Mimi Billing
Mimi Billing is a founding senior reporter at Sifted, a media site covering European tech innovation.
Linn Björnsdotter
Linn Björnsdotter is a writer, performer, educator and editor from Sweden.
Anna Blennow
Anna Blennow is an associated professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg. She is also a renowned essayist and literary critic in Swedish daily press and radio.
Nicolas Buchoud
Nicolas J.A. Buchoud is a fellow of the Global Solutions Initiative and O.P. Jindal Global University Centre for Sustainability and an honorary member of the Indonesian Creative Cities Network.
Kevin Casas-Zamora
Kevin Casas-Zamora is the Secretary-General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and a Senior Fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington DC-based policy research centre.
Sanna Ghotbi
Sanna Ghotbi is co-founder and citizen participation expert at Digidem Lab, a democracy lab based in Sweden that works locally and globally to increase the power of those with least in local decision-making.
Edward Glaeser
Edward Glaeser is chairman of the department of economics at Harvard University.
Nobel Prize laureate
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche shares the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Wineland for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.”
Limin Hee
Limin Hee is Director of Research at Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a nexus and knowledge centre for liveable and sustainable cities, where she focuses on research strategies, content development and international collaborations.
Vidar Helgesen
Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation with a background as a lawyer, diplomat and politician.
Marcus Jahnke
Marcus Jahnke holds a Ph.D. in design and is director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Futures in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ann Legeby
Ann Legeby is a professor in applied urban design at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, School of Architecture.
Sir Michael Marmot
Sir Michael Marmot is director of the Institute of Health Equity at UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health.
Lisa Mastiaux
Lisa Mastiaux is a Youth Fellow at the International Youth Think Tank. She has a strong interest in the promotion and strengthening of democracy.
Susan Parnell
Susan Parnell is a professor of urban geography at the University of Bristol and emeritus professor at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.
Edgar Pieterse
Edgar Pieterse is founding director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at UCT and holds the South African Research Chair in Urban Policy.
Carlo Ratti
An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the Senseable City Lab, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati.
Nobel Prize laureate
Paul Romer
Prize in economic sciences 2018.
Paul Romer is an economist and policy entrepreneur that has spent his career at the intersection of economics, innovation, technology, and urbanisation, working to speed up human progress. Paul Romer will participate online.
Brian P. Schmidt
Physics prize 2011.
Brian P. Schmidt is Vice-Chancellor and President of The Australian National University. He received the Nobel Prize for discovering the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
Modise Sekgothe
Modise Sekgothe is a Johannesburg-based artist with multiple titles.
Karen Seto
Karen Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of the Environment. Her central research focus is how urbanisation will affect the planet.
Adam Smith
As chief scientific officer for Nobel Prize Outreach, Adam Smith has played a key role in putting together the Nobel Week Dialogue. His background is in scientific research and science publishing.
Monica L. Smith
Monica L. Smith is professor in the Department of Anthropology and professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Laura Sprechmann
Laura Sprechmann is CEO for Nobel Prize Outreach, the company that aims to spread knowledge and raise interest in the Nobel Prize-awarded achievements to a global audience, through digital media and international events.
Karin Svensson
Karin Svensson, producer of the podcast Nobel Prize Conversations, is a Stockholm-based independent journalist and broadcaster.
Daniel Urquijo
Daniel Urquijo is a youth fellow at the International Youth Think Tank.
Jan Vapaavuori
Jan Vapaavuori is the former Mayor of Helsinki, senior adviser at NREP and a board member and senior adviser at Miltton Group.
Juleen Zierath
Juleen Zierath is professor of clinical integrative physiology at Karolinska lnstitutet. Her research has revealed key steps in insulin signaling pathways that are impaired in diabetic patients.