Anneliek Sijbrandij is the director of the Verbier Art Summit in Switzerland, living and working in the Netherlands. She studied Law at the University of Groningen and joined Andersen Amsterdam as a tax lawyer in 2000. Most of her career she worked with professional services firm Deloitte in London, the UK. In 2012, she followed her passion for art and studied Modern & Contemporary Art and Art World Practice. Whilst on a sabbatical in Verbier, Switzerland, in 2013, she founded the non-profit Verbier Art Summit, a platform for innovation and change through art. Ever since, she has been engaged in connecting leading thinkers to the art world, with a strong focus on generating innovative ideas and driving social change through art. Sijbrandij is responsible for strengthening and activating the platform, and works closely with the partnering museum director to curate the theme, invite the speakers and achieve more impact with each Summit edition: Size Matters! (De)Growth of the 21st Century Art Museum (2017), More than Real. Art in the Digital Age (2018), We are Many. Art, the Political and Multiple Truths (2019) and Resource Hungry: Our Cultured Landscape and its Ecological Impact (2020 and digitally in 2021 & 2022).
   
   

Beatrix Ruf is a curator based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and co-designed the format of the inaugural Verbier Art Summit in 2017. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Hartwig Art Foundation in Amsterdam and works on strategies and programmes at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. Beatrix served as the Director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from November 2014 to January 2018. From September 2001 to October 2014 Beatrix was Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Zürich, overseeing a substantial expansion project launched in 2003 and concluded in 2012. Former occupations include: Curator at Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth from 1994-1998, Director of the Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus from 1998-2001. In 2006 she curated the third edition of the Tate Triennial in London, she was Co-Curator of the Yokohama Triennial in 2008. From 1995 to 2014 she has been the curator of the Ringier Collection and since 2010 she is a member of the think tank core group of the LUMA. In 2013 Beatrix co-founded POOL, a postgraduate curatorial program in Zürich. 

Daniel Birnbaum is the director and curator of Acute Art in London, UK. Daniel was previously the director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm from 2010 to 2018. From 2000 to 2010 he was the Rector of Städelschule in Frankfurt and Director of its kunsthalle Portikus. He is contributing editor of Artforum in New York and has curated a number of large exhibitions, including Airs de Paris at Centre Pompidou in Paris (in co-operation with Christine Macel) in 2007. Birnbaum was the director of the 2009 Venice Biennale. He is the author of numerous books on art and philosophy and is the co-editor (with Isabelle Graw) of the Insitut für Kunstkritik series published by Sternberg Press. He is on the board of directors of Nobel Media, the organization that manages all the events surrounding the Nobel prizes.      

Jochen Volz is the General Director of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 2017, he was the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia. He was the curator of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo in 2016. He served as Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Galleries in London (2012-2015); Artistic Director at Instituto Inhotim (2005-2012); and curator at Portikus in Frankfurt (2001-2004). Volz was co-curator of the international exhibition of the 53rd Bienal de Veneza (2009) and the 1st Aichi Triennial in Nagoya (2010) and guest curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo (2006), besides having contributed to other exhibitions throughout the world. He holds a masters in art history, communication and pedagogy by the Humboldt University in Berlin (1998). Lives in São Paulo. 

Jessica Morgan joined Dia Art Foundation as Director in January 2015 and was named Nathalie de Gunzburg Director in October 2017. At Dia, Morgan is responsible for strengthening and activating all parts of Dia’s multivalent program, including its pioneering Land art projects, site-specific commissions, and collections and programming across its constellation of sites. Since Morgan’s arrival at Dia, the foundation has grown and diversified its collection to include significant works by Mary Corse, Nancy Holt, Robert Morris, Dorothea Rockburne, Kishio Suga, Anne Truitt, and Lee Ufan among others. 
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Alongside an expanded exhibition program, Morgan has continued Dia’s commitment to site-specific commissions, facilitating major new work by artists including Isabel Lewis, Rita McBride and Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and in 2015 realizing the first Dia commission outside the continental United States since 1982 with Allora & Calzadilla’s Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos), situated in Puerto Rico. In 2018, Morgan announced a comprehensive, multi-year campaign, that includes the upgrade, revitalization, and ongoing stewardship of Dia’s key programmatic spaces and artist sites. 
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Philip Tinari is Director and Chief Executive of UCCA Center for Contemporary. Since 2011, he has led its transformation from a founder-driven private museum into China’s leading independent contemporary art institution, presenting a wide range of exhibitions and programs to more than one million annual visitors across four venues in Beijing, Shanghai, Beidaihe and Yixing. His award-winning program has included more than 120 exhibitions of artists ranging from Cao Fei and Xu Bing to Rauschenberg and Picasso, putting the contemporary art of China into global context and vice versa.

Tinari is a widely recognised writer and curator. He was co-curator of the 2017 exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Bilbao, and SFMOMA, and curator of the 2016 exhibition Bentu: Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. In 2021 he curated Feeling the Stones, the inaugural edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale in Riyadh and then the largest contemporary art exhibition to date in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. From 2009 to 2012, he founded and edited LEAP, the first internationally distributed, bilingual contemporary art magazine in China. He was also the founding editor of the Chinese edition of Artforum in 2008. He has been named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Born near Philadelphia and based in Beijing, Tinari was a Fulbright scholar at Peking University, and holds degrees from Duke and Harvard.

Helena Bjäringer is a Founding Member of the Verbier Art Summit and joined the Board of Directors in the summer of 2024. She is an investment manager at GADD & Cie in Geneva and has been focusing on Scandinavian HNWIs and family offices at various international banks in Geneva for most of her career. Helena holds a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Uppsala. She is a Swedish citizen, but has been a Swiss resident for most of her life also having lived in the US and Ethiopia. Helena has developed a passion and interest for art and has become more involved in art related events and institutions over the past fifteen years. Next to supporting numerous European Art institutions, she is an active member of the International Circle of Friends at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and of the acquisition committee at le Centre Pompidou. She has been involved with Human Rights Watch since 2016 and is a member of the Art and Activism committee. Together with Deborah Najar, Helena recently instigated a partnership between the renowned artist and activist, Ai Weiwei, and Swiss art publisher JRP, to promote human rights through art. 

Marie-Hélène de Torrenté is an avid lover of the arts, and one of the first people to support the creation of an influential international art platform in Verbier. In the summer of 2014, she joined forces with Anneliek Sijbrandij and Julie Daverio by creating the non-profit Association. As a non-executive director, thanks to her extensive knowledge and passion for culture, Marie-Hélène is extremely committed to the vision of the organisation and its ongoing expansion. She has been living and working in Verbier for over three decades, also owning and running the restaurant Au Vieux Verbier.

Noepy Beckers-Testa studied Arts at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and graduated in History at the University of Amsterdam in 2001, including a year at the Université Paris Sorbonne. She followed the International Marketing Programme at INSEAD, France. Noepy is an independent arts communication consultant since 2010. She worked before that time as Press and Publicity manager for the Hermitage Amsterdam Museum and the international exhibition centre De Nieuwe Kerk. She also worked at the PR department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Since 2010, Noepy worked for the Institut Néerlandais, the Dutch embassy and the famous private collection of the Fondation Custodia in Paris for whom she currently still works. Since 2014, she lives and works in Amsterdam where she founded EN TESTA, consultancy for cultural communication & project management. She was responsible for PR for the blockbuster exhibition Jheronimus Bosch. Other cultural clients (previously/currently) include TEFAF art fair, art programmes, artists, architects, art charities and now for the Museum Prinsenhof Delft for the international retrospective on Pieter de Hooch. Starting in 2016, Noepy as an art professional and art lover became involved as the press officer for the 2017 & 2018 Verbier Art Summit, and currently operates as Board Member, advising on Communications.

Simone Coscarelli Parma graduated from Sotheby’s Institute of Art with a Master of Arts in Fine and Decorative Arts. Simone is an award-winning Digital Marketing and Communications executive, with twenty years of experience in leading multinational corporations. She is passionate about the arts and helping art institutions with their digital customer engagement. Simone has previously worked with the Summit in 2019 as Committee Digital Marketing Chair, conceptualising and implementing a new Summit website. Simone has re-joined the Summit as Head of Communications to develop and oversee the implementation of marketing, communications, social media and brand strategies. She is also a Member of Tate’s Latin American Acquisition Committee (UK), a Founding Member of Fondation Maeght International Council (France), and a Patron of the Pivô Satellite Program (Brasil).

Fleur Greebe graduated from the University of Utrecht in 2004 where she studied Communication Science, with a degree in Intercultural Communication. She is living in Amsterdam, where she worked as a Strategy and Business Development Director for LAVA for seven years before setting up her own company Different Company in 2016. Fleur has a holistic brand-thinking approach and worked with brands like the Amsterdam Museum, Red October Gallery, Moscow Design Museum, Hermitage, Museum Vereniging, Dixon&deJaeger, and The Art Connector. Further to the cultural sector, she worked on a global level for KPN, One Planet Thinking and Heineken. In the summer of 2017, Fleur became involved as a strategic brand developer for the Verbier Art Summit.

Fried-Jan van den Eerenbeemt is co-owner of three companies focusing on video content and strategy. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Arts, Fried-Jan began his career as a freelance videographer for numerous Dutch broadcasters. In 2003, he became a member and partner of Team Facilities in Hilversum, working with television programs. 

In 2006, Fried-Jan founded Crossmark in the Hague, and has since grown it into a full creative studio along with Thomas Klomp, who joined Fried-Jan as co-owner in 2019. Crossmark offers concept-to-production digital content, virtual reality productions, and strategy services in partnership with Mark Partners. Simply put, they create cool stuff that matters. In 2014, Crossmark was asked to support the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in developing a scenario-based policy discussion at the Nuclear Security Summit: the Scenarios4Summits company was founded, where Fried-Jan acts as co-owner and creative director.

Emma studied Management specialising in Marketing at University of Manchester and has over eight years of experience in digital marketing and content generation. Emma’s career began in London, where she worked with leading organisations, including British Telecom, before moving to Verbier in 2015.

Having founded her own consultancy in Verbier, TIHI Solutions, Emma now focuses on strengthening the marketing strategy for the Verbier Art Summit. She is dedicated to expanding the Summit’s reach, using her expertise in content generation and relationship marketing to engage diverse audiences and enhance the platform’s impact.

Tejal Gala graduated from MIT Institute of Design in India with a Diploma in Retail and Exhibition Design in 2016, and from HEAD-Geneve with a MA in Space and Communication in 2021. She has 4+ years of experience as a Visual Merchandiser and Retail Designer. She is motivated to drive design projects with a socio-ecological perspective. She is a strong believer in the role of art and design for social impact. Tejal is enthusiastic about the idea of Verbier Art Summit offering a platform to kickstart important dialogues as a precursor to action. She joined the 2022 Summit as an Event & Communication Designer, with the aim of making the Verbier Art Summit more easily accessible to global audiences, to encourage participation and to amplify its impact. She is focused on the expression of the Summit's identity through various physical and digital mediums.