Barbara Bleisch is a philosopher, journalist, and author. Since 2011, she has hosted Sternstunde Philosophie on Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). From 2018 to 2022, she was a permanent columnist for Tages-Anzeiger and from 2013 to 2019 for Philosophie Magazin in Berlin. On Saturday mornings she can be heard regularly on the philosophy program #giigets on SRF3, and from time to time she is a guest on other programs: Philosophisches Radio (WDR5), Sein und Streit (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), and Club (SRF). For her journalistic work, in 2020, she was named Journalist of the Year in the “Society” category by the industry magazine Swiss Journalist:in, and in 2017, 2018, and 2022, she achieved second place in the “Culture” category.

Since 2005, Barbara Bleisch has been teaching in the Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics Department at the University of Zurich and is a member of the Ethics Centre of that same university. She is also a Professor at the University of Lucerne and HWZ in Zurich. Since 2024, she has been the Assistant Director of Philosophicum Lech. She studied philosophy, Germanic philology, and religious studies in Zurich, Basel, and Tübingen and received her Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Zurich with a thesis on global justice.