China Advisory Panel
Bernardino REGAZZONI
Former Ambassador of Switzerland to the People’s Republic of China, Mongolia and to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Lugano, Switzerland
Born in 1957 in Lugano, Mr. Bernardino Regazzoni holds a doctorate in Philosophy.
He entered the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1988 and went through his probation at the Office for European Affairs in Berne and at the Embassy of Switzerland in Abidjan. In 1990, he was posted as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kinshasa. On his return to Berne in 1993, he was appointed as Head of the Francophonie Desk, and in 1996 as Deputy Head of the Political Affairs Division I (Europe, North America) holding the title of Minister from 1999. From the same year to September 2002 he was Counsellor for diplomatic affairs to the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs. From September 2002 until July 2006 he was Ambassador of Switzerland to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and to the Republic of Maldives, with residence in Colombo. From July 2006 to the end of 2009 he has been Ambassador of Switzerland to the Republic
of Indonesia and to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, with residence in Jakarta. In July 2009 he was concurrently accredited as Ambassador of Switzerland to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). From December 2009 until May 2014 he has been Ambassador of Switzerland to Italy,
concurrently accredited to Malta and to the Republic of San Marino. From May 2014 to August 2018 he has been Ambassador of Switzerland to France,
concurrently accredited in the Principality of Monaco. From March 2019 to August 2022 he has been Ambassador of Switzerland to the People’s Republic of China, Mongolia and to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Ambassador Regazzoni is married and has 2 children.
Uli SIGG
Uli Sigg in his career traversed very diverse fields: from journalism to industry to diplomacy as Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia to venture capital investing and to art. He served on various boards of global companies.He currently is a member of the Advisory Board of China Development Bank and an active investor and board member in several tech ventures. Of his extensive interactions in more than forty years with the PR China, two are of historic significance: to establish 1980 the first industrial joint venture between the PRC and the outside world which marks the beginning of the PRC‘s epochal globalization process; and to form the singular collection of Chinese contemporary art that can represent the story line from its beginnings in the 70ies to the present – and then restituting 1500 works back to China, to the M+ Museum in Hongkong. He also established 1997 the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Chinese contemporary artists living in Greater China, now transformed into the SIGG PRIZE. He is a member of the M+ Museum Board, the International Council of New York Modern Art Museum MOMA, International Advisory Council of Tate Gallery, London and member of the Board of Kunstmuseum Zürich.