24/09/2021
Know our Chief Guest Speaker: Prof. Dr. theol. lic. phil. Peter G. Kirchschläger
Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Lucerne. Founder and Director of the «Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE» under the patronage of UNESCO and since 2018 Founder and Director of the «Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics LGSE».
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the International Human Rights Forum Lucerne (IHRF). Co-Founder, and Co-Director of the Centre of Human Rights Education (ZMRB) at the University of Teacher Education Lucerne. Guest-lectures at universities in Switzerland and abroad (among others, Harvard University, Columbia University). Chair ad interim at the Chur University of Theology and Dean of Research at the Chur University of Theology. Member of the Board of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights. Member of the Expert-Jury of the Swiss Ethics Award. Visiting Scholar at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia). Guest-Professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Guest-Lecturer at the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany).
Consultative expert in Ethics of national and international organizations and institutions (e.g., UN, UNESCO, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe [OSCE], European Union [EU], Council of Europe, Companies and NGOs). Member of the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology ECNH. Associate Editor of the Journal «AI Perspectives» and a member of the editorial board of «Asian Horizons». Reviewer of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), for the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), for the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)