Armin Nassehi is Professor of Sociology at LMU Munich whose research focuses on how decisions are generated in complex situations and how different perspectives of society are met in business, politics, science, media and culture. After studying education, philosophy and sociology in Münster and Hagen, Armin Nassehi (*1960) earned his doctorate in sociology and habilitated in 1994. He was initially a senior assistant and private lecturer before being appointed to the chair of sociology at the LMU Munich in 1998. In addition, he is a member of the board of the Human Science Centre of the LMU, a member of the board of the Munich Center for Ethics of the LMU, since 2009 he has been a member of the University Council and the Senate of the LMU and since 2012 a member of the board of the Hannover Institute for Philosophical Research. His fields of research are the areas of cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge and political sociology. Nassehi has written many publications inhis fields of research, including over 20 books. He also works as a journalist, writing regularly for Die zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Since 2012 Nassehi has been the publisher of the cultural journal Kursbuch. Outside the academic world he is a sought-after keynote speaker and a consultant in business and culture. Passionately he opens new perspectives on today’s topics for his audience.