Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies Emeritus at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany. He is a fellow of the Royal Society (Canada). He is one of the authors of the Hartwell Paper on climate policy. His recent books include The Power of Scientific Knowledge (with Reiner Grundmann, Cambridge University Press, 2012); Is Liberty a Daughter of Knowledge? (Cambridge University Press, 2016); Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits (with Amanda Machin, Springer, 2016); Knowledge: Is Knowledge Power? (with Marion Adolf, Routledge, 2017); Society & Climate (with Amanda Machin, World Scientific, 2019); Money. A Social Theory of Modernity (with Dustin Voss, Routledge, 2020).