Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form, creating some of the most important early works. The body has always been both her subject and medium.
Nobel Week Dialogue
In total 30 panellists participated in this year's Nobel Week Dialogue, including world-leading experts and inspiring thought leaders.
Peter Agre
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003.
Peter Agre shared the Nobel Prize for discovering aquaporins. He is director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sofie Allert
Sofie Allert is co-founder and CEO of Swedish Algae Factory, founded to make use of a natural resource that can create sustainable value for society - algae.
Diva Amon
Diva Amon is a deep-sea biologist who studies chemosynthetic habitats and human impacts on the deep ocean, especially related to deep-sea mining. She is co-founder of the non-profit NGO, SpeSeas.
Maude Barlow
An author and activist, Maude Barlow is honorary chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch.
Steven Chu
Nobel Prize in Physics 1997.
Steven Chu developed the theory of laser cooling of actual, multilevel atoms and has recently focused on new solutions to our energy and climate challenges.
Julian Dowdeswell
A glaciologist, Julian Dowdeswell is director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and professor of physical geography in the University of Cambridge.
Jan Eliasson
An international and Swedish diplomat, Eliasson has an interest in water issues, in particular for the developing world, and was the first chairman of WaterAid, Sweden.
Beatrice Fihn
Beatrice Fihn is the executive director of ICAN, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-awarded campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
Mattias Fyrenius
Mattias Fyrenius is CEO of Nobel Media, which handles and develops all media related activities connected to the Nobel Prizes and spreads knowledge about the Nobel Prize awarded achievements.
Sir Andre Geim
Andre Geim is Regius Professor at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on graphene, a one-atom-thick material made of carbon.
John Grotzinger
Previously chief scientist of the Mars Curiosity Rover mission, John Grotzinger is a professor of geology and geobiology who studies the surficial environments on Earth and Mars.
Stefan Hell
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014.
Stefan Hell received the Nobel Prize for developing super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. He is a director at the Max Planck Institutes for both Biophysical Chemistry and Medical Research.
Anders Nilsson
A chemical physicist at Stockholm University, Anders Nilsson studies the structure and dynamics of water with the goal of understanding the properties that make this liquid completely unique on earth.
Roberto Orosei
Roberto Orosei is the principal investigator of the MARSIS radar, which provided evidence of the presence of liquid water beneath the south polar cap of Mars.
Sandra Postel
Sandra Postel is an author and founding director of the Global Water Policy Project. She works to bridge science, policy and practice to build a more water-secure world.
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström is a professor of environmental science and co-chair of the world’s largest research network for global sustainability science, Future Earth.
Randy Schekman
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013.
Randy Schekman received the prize for discovering how genes regulate vesicle traffic in our cells. He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Lisen Schultz
Lisen Schultz is deputy science director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University where she leads research on biosphere stewardship.
Barry Sharpless
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001.
Barry Sharpless was awarded the Nobel Prize for developing chirally catalysed oxidation reactions, and is also the originator of click chemistry.
Dan Shechtman
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011.
Dan Shechtman received the prize for discovering quasicrystals. Today his research interests are centered on studying the structure and properties of new magnesium alloys.
Adam Smith
As Chief Scientific Officer for Nobel Media, Smith has played a key role in putting together the Nobel Week Dialogue. His background is in scientific research and science publishing.
Lisa Emelia Svensson
Lisa Emelia Svensson is the UN Environment’s ambassador for ocean, where she leads work on global ocean issues.
Petra Wadström
Petra Wadström is the inventor and founder of Solvatten - a technology that treats and heats water with the use of solar energy.
Sonam Wangchuk
A engineer by education, and inventor of the Ice Stupa artificial glacier for storing water, Sonam Wangchuk works on education reform in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, India.
Gary White
Gary White is CEO and co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity, which are dedicated to empowering people in the developing world gain access to safe water and sanitation.
Angela Wulff
Angela Wulff is a professor in marine ecology with a passion for studying the base of the marine food web, microscopic algae, and their potential for industrial applications.
Juleen Zierath
Juleen Zierath is professor of clinical integrative physiology and a member of the Nobel Committee at Karolinska lnstitutet.
Nobel Week Dialogue 2018
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