About Us

Below you will learn a little bit more about some of our regular symposium participants

Matthew EDWARDS is an independent consultant and analyst based in Vienna. He gained his bachelor’s from the University of York and master’s degree from King’s College, London.

Fruzsina JELEN has a Bachelor’s degree from Budapest Business School and a Master’s degree from Université de Picardie Jules Verne.

Renáta NELSON is a political scientist and social cohesion expert who has been working in the field of intercultural and interreligious dialogue since 2013. Ms Nelson’s work includes research on dialogue as a tool for conflict prevention and reconciliation, international projects on engaging religious actors in sustainable development and towards preventing incitement to violence.

Scott B. NELSON is Research and Strategy Advisor at the Austrian Economics Center and Hayek Institut in Vienna, Austria. He has published works on political ethics and a variety of thinkers including Raymond Aron, Max Weber, Erasmus, Karl Marx, and Karl Popper. Peter Lang has recently published his PhD dissertation in intellectual history, entitled Tragedy and History: The German Influence on Raymond Aron’s Political Thought. He is currently working as a co-author with Matthew Edwards on a book discussing Cicero and modern politics.

David NOLLAND studied Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge and did his PhD in String Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Field Theory at the University of Durham. He subsequently taught Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Durham, Northumbria and Liverpool Universities, before embarking on a school teaching career at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School and St. Albans School (Stephen Hawking’s alma mater) and spending a number of years in Vienna, Austria as a translator of academic books, including books on physics, philosophy, and management, as well as a series of textbooks by Elisabeth Lukas on Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy. There, he was also involved in the leadership of an ecumenical church, where he held regular lectures on theology, philosophy of science, art history and other matters to do with Christian culture in the contemporary world. From August 2019 he will be back in the UK teaching Mathematics as a tutor at Oxford International College.

John SAUDINO teaches English Literature, History, Psychology and Philosophy at a bilingual “Gymnasium” in Vienna. He got his Bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Russian Area Studies with a minor in Economics and History.  He is currently working on a Master’s Degree in Philosophy of Science at the University of Vienna and is focusing on the question of scientific objectivity in the theoretical social sciences.