Alain Elkann Interviews
Episodes
Ambrogio Beccaria - 184 - Alain Elkann Interviews
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
POWER IS NOTHING WITHOUT CONTROL. Ambrogio Beccaria was born in Milan in 1991 and gained a degree in nautical engineering. In 2019 he became the first...
Hans Ulrich Obrist - 183 - Alain Elkann Interviews
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I WANT TO CREATE JUNCTIONS. Hans Ulrich Obrist is a Swiss art curator, critic, and art historian who lives and works in London where he is Artistic D...
Inigo Lambertini - 182 - Alain Elkann Interviews
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TRADITION AND INNOVATION. Inigo Lambertini was appointed Ambassador of Italy to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by the Italia...
Tim Marlow - 181 - Alain Elkann Interviews
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DESIGN OF THE PRESENT INTO THE FUTURE. Tim Marlow OBE is the Chief Executive and Director of The Design Museum which since 2016 is housed in the forme...
Jasper Conran - 180 - Alain Elkann Interviews
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TASTEMAKER AND HOTELIER. Jasper Conran is a British designer who studied at Parsons School of Art and Design in New York. He has worked on collections...
Fanny Minesi - 179 - Alain Elkann Interviews
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A MISSION TO STOP EXTINCTION. Fanny Minesi is General Director of Friends of Bonobos - Les Amis des Bonobos du Congo (ABC). Her organisation operates ...
Edward St Aubyn - 178 - Alain Elkann Interviews
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DESIRE FOR FREEDOM. Edward St Aubyn is a British novelist. Five of his books - Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk and At Last - form the s...
Rob Ashford - 177 - Alain Elkann Interviews
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AT HOME IN TANGIER. Rob Ashford is an American stage director and choreographer. He is a Tony Award, Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Drama Desk Award and O...
Edward Carey - 176 - Alain Elkann Interviews
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
STRIKINGLY INVENTIVE STORYTELLER. Edward Carey is an English playwright and illustrator who settled in Austin in 2006 and teaches at the University ...
Costis Maglaras - 173 - Alain Elkann Interviews
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION AT A TIME OF TECHNOLOGY AND TENSION. Costis Maglaras is the Dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen ...
Santiago Calatrava - 169 - Alain Elkann Interviews
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ART PRECEDES SCIENCE. Santiago Calatrava is a visionary architect, a structural engineer, a sculptor, and a painter based in Switzerland. In his archi...
Francine Lacqua - 167 - Alain Elkann Interviews
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CHRONICLING CAPITALISM. Francine Lacqua is the London-based award-winning anchor of the Bloomberg Television daily weekday programme The Pulse with Fr...
Dambisa Moyo - 160 - Alain Elkann Interviews
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HUMAN PROGRESS. Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian-born economist and writer whose books, articles, and public lectures centre on the cre...
Lina Ghotmeh - 157 - Alain Elkann Interviews
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER. Architect Lina Ghotmeh was born and raised in Beirut, where she studied at the American University. In 2005, while working i...
Stephen Buchmann - 156 - Alain Elkann Interviews
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
INSPIRED BY BEES. Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Entomology and Ec...
Antoine Compagnon - 155 - Alain Elkann Interviews
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A SENSE OF TIME. Antoine Compagnon is a literary critic, writer, and professor emeritus at the Collège de France, specializing in Marcel Proust. He i...
Lee Bul - 152 - Alain Elkann Interviews
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CREATING A WEB THAT HOLDS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS TOGETHER. Lee Bul is a contemporary sculpture and installation artist who was born in 1964 to dissident...
Jimmy Robert - 148 - Alain Elkann Interviews
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CONSTRUCTING A SELF THROUGH ART. Jimmy Robert is a visual artist who places the question of the body, racialised, queer, at the centre of his work. ...
Chemi Peres - 147 - Alain Elkann Interviews
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
INNOVATION IS THE PATH TO PEACE. Chemi Peres is a Managing Partner and was Co-Founder in 1993 of Pitango, Israel's largest venture capital fund with o...
Giuliano da Empoli - 145 - Alain Elkann Interviews
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN. Giuliano da Empoli is an Italian and Swiss political essayist, journalist and novelist. The founding chairman of Volta, a t...
Lynn Garafola - 144 - Alain Elkann Interviews
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
THE TALENT OF LA NIJINSKA. Lynn Garafola is a dance historian and critic. Professor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College, Columbia University, she is t...
John A. Paulson - 143 - Alain Elkann Interviews
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A MAJOR PHILANTHROPIST. John A. Paulson founded Paulson & Co., an investment management firm based in New York. In 2007 his multi-billion payoff short...
Gianfranco Maraniello - 142 - Alain Elkann Interviews
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A VERY SPECIAL MOMENT FOR MILANO. Gianfranco Maraniello is an art historian, contemporary art critic and curator. In May 2022 he was selected to be th...
Dr Sanam Vakil - 140 - Alain Elkann Interviews
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Dr. Sanam Vakil is the Deputy Director of the Middle East North Africa programme at Chatham House, the Royal Ins...
Benedetta Cibrario - 139 - Alain Elkann Interviews
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ADDICTED TO WRITING. Benedetta Cibrario was born in Florence, Italy, in 1962, to a father from Turin and a mother from Naples. She is a writer who liv...
Amos Gitai - 138 - Alain Elkann Interviews
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DOCUMENTING OUR DISPLACEMENT. The filmmaker Amos Gitai was born in Israel in 1950 where his father Munio Gitai Weintraub was a prominent Bauhaus archi...