Uli Sigg

Uli Sigg (born 1946) is a Swiss businessman, diplomat and art collector. He served as the Swiss Ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia from 1995 to 1998. He serves as the vice chairman of Ringier, the largest media company in Switzerland. He made a large donation of contemporary Chinese art to the Hong Kong–based M+ museum in 2012.

Early life Uli Sigg was born in 1946. He received a PhD in Law from the University of Zurich. By 1977, he worked for the Schindler Group, where he was an expatriate in China. He left the company in 1990.

As of 2009, he served as the vice chairman of Ringier, a media company.

Art collection Sigg became the largest private collector of contemporary Chinese art in the world. The donation includes 26 works by Ai Weiwei and other works by "Ding Yi, Fang Lijun, Geng Jianyi, Gu Wenda, Huang Yongping, Liu Wei, Xu Bing and Zhang Xiaogang".

He serves on the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the International Advisory Council of the Tate in London, United Kingdom.

Personal life Sigg is married.