Peter G. Kirchschlaeger Ethics-Professor University of Lucerne / Visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich

Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is Ethics-Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland), Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (South Africa) and Visiting Professor at the Chair for Neuroinformatics and Neural Systems at ETH Zurich as well at the ETH AI Center. Prior, he was Visiting Fellow at Yale University (USA).

2011-2015, he was member of the Board of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights, 2013 Visiting Scholar at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia), 2013-2014 Guest-Professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), 2013-2017 Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden), 2015-2019 Guest-Lecturer at the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany).

He is a consultative expert in Ethics of national and international institutions and organizations (companies, NGOs, …), among others, member of the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH).

In his research, he focuses on ethics of digital transformation and ethics of artificial intelligence. His latest books are: “Ethical Decision-Making” (2023) and “Digital Transformation and Ethics” (2021).