Bodies & Persons
Roger von Mentlen
Roger von Mentlen
Roger von Mentlen has been a member of the UBS Foundation Board since 2016 and became Chairman of the UBS Culture Foundation in 2020. He is a qualified banking expert, who joined Union Bank of Switzerland in 1977, and has taken various management positions at UBS since 1998 in the Wealth Management & Business Banking Switzerland area. Until 2019, he was responsible for the Personal Banking business area and was a member of the Executive Committee UBS Region Switzerland. He joined the Board of Directors of UBS Switzerland AG in 2020.
Martin Meyer
Martin Meyer
Martin Meyer has been vice president of the UBS Culture Foundation since 2004 and has been a member of its Foundation Board since 1998. He was the editor of the Feuilleton of the Neuen Zürcher Zeitung starting in 1974 and managed it from 1992 until 2015. He is a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Literature and the chairman of the committee of the Swiss Institute of International Studies. In 2011, he received the title of an honorary doctor from the University of St. Gallen.
Roman Bucheli
Roman Bucheli
Roman Bucheli has been a member of the Board of the UBS Culture Foundation since January 1, 2016. He has been a culture editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung Feuilleton since 1999, where he is responsible for German and Dutch literature, and books for children and young people. In addition to his work as a journalist, he is also a university lecturer and helps to promote literature in institutions.
Michael Haefliger
Michael Haefliger
Michael Haefliger has been a member of the UBS Culture Foundation Board since 2007. He has been the director of LUCERNE FESTIVAL (previously the Internationale Musikfestwochen Luzern) since 1999. Next to organizing the music festival SOMMER he is also responsible for the festivals OSTERN and PIANO. He has won several prizes, including the Global Leader of Tomorrow Award (WEF, Davos 2000) and the European Culture Innovation Award (2003).
Michel E. Fuchs
Michel E. Fuchs
Michel E. Fuchs has been a member of the Board of the UBS Culture Foundation since January 1, 2016. He is a professor at the Institute of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Lausanne and, in addition to his teaching work, also leads research projects and excavations in Switzerland and abroad. As an internationally renowned expert in ancient wall paintings, he supervises doctoral students, is the author of numerous publications and curator of several exhibitions.
Karin Oertli
Karin Oertli
Karin Oertli has been a member of the Foundation Board of the UBS Culture Foundation since 2021. Since 2021, she has had a broad range of responsibilities as Head GCRG Transformation, Group Governance and C&ORC P&C Switzerland. Karin Oertli is member of the Executive Committee GCRG Region Switzerland and the Executive Board UBS Switzerland AG. Prior to her current role, Karin Oertli held various leadership positions at UBS e.g. as Chief Operating Officer UBS Switzerland, in Wealth Management, Asset Management and Risk Functions.
Seraina Rohrer
Seraina Rohrer
Seraina Rohrer has been a member of the UBS Culture Foundation Board since 2013. From 2011 and 2019 she was director of the Solothurner Filmtage, and since the beginning of 2020 she has been a management member of Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and head of the Innovation & Society division.
Claudia Steinfels
Claudia Steinfels
Claudia Steinfels has been a member of the Foundation Board of the UBS Culture Foundation since April 2020. She is the owner and chairwoman of the Board of Directors both of the art consulting firm Steinfels Art Consulting AG that was founded in Zurich in 2012 and of a company with the same name founded in London in 2013. Her specialties are Swiss art, impressionism as well as modern and contemporary art.