Going up: riding the risk escalator with Ortwin

In 35 years of research and intervention as an ‘academic without a university’, the author has found intersection with Ortwin Renn’s work, benefited from his generous collaborative philosophy and network creation, and learned about the inside/outside polarity of institutional risk governance and the public. This perspective piece is a personal look backward, based on a 46-slide, predominantly visual presentation to the 29 June 2018 Potsdam workshop convened by R. Löfstedt in honor of Renn and attended by 16 colleagues from across Europe and the globe.