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Nico Stehr is "Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies" at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany, a private German college start-up.

He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1970. Between 1967 and 2000, he taught at American and Canadian universities. His last appointment in Canada was that of fellow in Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study der University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was Paul-Lazarsfeld-Professor (a visiting appointmemt) at the University of Vienna. He is Senior Research Fellow of the Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, a fellow of the Fellow the Center for Advanved Study of the Humanities, Essen, Germany editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology and a Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada). The Friedrichshafen appointment, which came well after retirement age, is his first permanent (though not tenured) professorship.

• 'Die Zerbrechlichkeit moderner Gesellschaften
• Die Grenzen der Macht und die Chancen des Individuums (Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000)
• Governing Modern Societies (University of Toronto Press, 2000)
• Wissen und Wirtschaften: Die gesellschaftlichen Grundlagen der modernen Ökonomie (Suhrkamp, 2001)
• Knowledge and Economic Conduct: The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy (University of Toronto Press, 2002)
• Wissenspolitik: Die Überwachung des Wissens (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003)
• The Governance of Knowledge (Transaction Books, 2004)
• Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society (Transaction Books, 2004)
• Die Gesellschaft des Terrors: Innansichten der KZs Dachau und Buchenwald (Mitherausgeber, Suhrkamp, 2004)
• Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequeneces of Science and Technology (Paradigm Books).
• The Moralization of the Markets (forthcoming)

• Nico Stehr CV