Ann Bless is an English native speaker and a Swiss citizen with an international background. French is her second language, she speaks Dutch and German.

Since 1990, both on her own and with a dedicated team of collaborators, she has given courses and seminars at various scientific institutions in Europe and for the pharmaceutical industry. All throughout her career, her goal has been to raise scientists’ awareness of how they communicate and why their writing is often difficult to understand. She has helped them organize their thoughts before writing, structure their articles, and encouraged them to write clearly and concisely. She also gives presentations at congresses.