Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is Ethics-Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). He is Visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and Visiting Fellow at the University of Tuebingen (Germany). Prior he was visiting fellow at Yale University (USA).
He is President of the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology and a consultative expert in ethics of international institutions, organizations, companies, and NGOs. In 2026, Pope Leo XIV. appointed him as advisor.
In his research, he focuses on ethics of “AI” and digital transformation, ethics of and human rights, ethics of rights of the child, and business ethics.
Among his most recent books are Ethics and the Digital Transformation of Human Work. The Society, Entrepreneurship, Research-Time Model SERT (2025), Human Rights and Religions. Non-State Actors and Their Correlation with Human Rights (2025), Ethical Decision-Making (2023; second edition: 2026), and Digital Transformation and Ethics. Ethical Considerations on the Robotization and Automation of Society and the Economy and the Use of Artificial Intelligence (2021).
He has received several awards from the UN for his research, and in 2024 he was presented with the University of Lucerne’s Best Teacher Award by the university’s students in recognition of his teaching.
Peter G. Kirchschlaeger gets a lot of media attention, among others, by BBC News, GloboNews, and The New York Times.
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