Regula Stämpfli (born 11 January 1962 in Bern) is a Swiss born political scientist based in Brussels.
Biography
Stämpfli's childhood was spent in Switzerland. Her teenage years were spent in California, USA. She returned to Switzerland for college, studying history and political philosophy. She continued her studies in New York City.
Stämpfli holds a doctorate in political science and also studied history and philosophy at the University of Bern. She is the author of many textbooks and articles dealing with issues such as democratic theory, European political decision making, women's history, design, political communications and political philosophy. She is also a well known political commentator on current affairs in Switzerland.
Stämpfli is a columnist who writes on topics such as politics, philosophy, history, art and design. She directs the Hannah Arendt Lectures at the University of St. Gallen Regula Stämpfli worked for many years as a "star columnist" for the Basler Zeitung, the Blick am Abend as well as for the first Swiss online news platform news.ch. She also writes opinion pieces for, among other, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and is cultural editor and head of "political literature" at the cultural magazine ensuite. She is also an independent expert for the European Commission.
Dr. Regula Staempfli teaches History, Political Science and Political Philosophy at several Swiss and European educational institutions, including the University of Bern and University of Zurich. She is currently working as a political scientist in Brussels and as a part-time professor at the Swiss College for Journalism in Lucerne. Since 1988, she has worked as a lecturer at the Media Training Center (CNAC) in Lucerne. Stämpfli is a member of the Ethics Council of Switzerland's official statistics, the Advisory Board of the International Forum of Design in Ulm, the Foundation Board of the Gosteliarchive and the University Council of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. She is a columnist for Radio1 in Zürich, the politics-expert for Radio 24 in Zürich, media-expert for www.kleinreport.ch, the German feminist magazine Emma and columnist for Sonntag and Leben&Glauben.
Since the summer of 2020, Stämpfli, together with Isabel Rohner, has published a feminist weekly podcast review Die Podcastin. Stämpfli is also a concept developer and host of the science podcast for TA-SWISS and for Art is a Piece of Cake, together with Raimund Deininger.
In 2021 Regula Stämpfli was named one of the 50 most important Swiss intellectuals.
