Committee
The Holberg Prize Academic Committee is composed of five members:
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
- Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
- Helga Nowotny, Professor, President of the European Research Council
- Mary Jacobus, Professor of English, Cambridge University
- Christoph Markschies, Professor of Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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