- Member of M+ Acquisitions Committee
- Member of M+ Board
Dr Uli Sigg worked as a journalist and has held top executive positions at the Schindler Group. In 1980, he established the first joint venture between China and the West and was appointed ambassador to China, North Korea, and Mongolia in 1995. Currently, he is Vice President of the Ringier Media Group and a member of the Advisory Board of China Development Bank.
In 2012, Dr Sigg transferred over 1,500 works from his collection—the world’s most substantial collection of Chinese contemporary art—to M+. In 1998, he established the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), continued by M+ as the Sigg Prize, and the CCAA Art Critic Award in 2007. He is a member of the M+ Acquisitions Committee; the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the International Advisory Council of Tate. He is also the Honorary Director of China Foreign Investment Association, Beijing, and Founder and Honorary member of the Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
Dr Sigg holds a PhD in Law from the Universität Zürich.
