Rev. Esther R. Suter currently lives in Basel, Switzerland, where she was born and grew up. After some years working as a secretary, she studied theology, French and English at the universities in Basel, Munich, and Geneva (Ecumenical Institute at Bossey). Ordained as a Reformed pastor in Switzerland, she worked for ten years as a chaplain at the University Hospital in Basel. While working as a substitute pastor, she also traveled to more than 30 countries, starting to report as a journalist on a variety of issues. Currently, she mainly works as a freelance journalist in German, French and English. She finalized her doctoral thesis about “Das Existenzverständnis bei Fritz Buri” (a Swiss liberal theologian, 1907-1995) in 2020, published in 2025 and plans an English translation. Since 2023, she has served as president of the International Association of Liberal Religious Women, and serves as the main representative of the International Association for Religious Freedom for human rights at the UN in Geneva. Since 2010, she regularly attends the sessions of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York as an nongovernmental organization delegate.