Hanover, 23 March 2022

Dr Nina Scherf joins GEC

TUI Group: Dr Nina Scherf will be TUI´s Chief Legal Counsel with responsibility for Legal, Compliance & Board Office and will become a member of the Group Executive Committee

Dr Nina Scherf (51) will become Chief Legal Counsel and a member of the Group Executive Committee (GEC) of the international TUI Group as of 1 April 2022. She will be responsible for Legal and Compliance as well as the Board Office. In this position, she succeeds Dr Hilka Schneider, who moved to Akzo Nobel in Amsterdam at the beginning of 2022.

After studying law in Saarbrücken, Lille and Warwick and gaining a doctorate in corporate law, Dr Nina Scherf started her career in various law firms in Frankfurt and New York. In 2005, she joined the MDAX-listed international industrial technology group GEA. There, Dr Scherf worked in various legal management positions, most recently as Chief Legal Counsel for around seven years and in parallel as Chief Compliance Officer of GEA for six years.

Dr Nina Scherf has extensive expertise in all relevant legal areas such as corporate, capital markets and commercial law, cross-border mergers & acquisitions, board office and compliance. Fritz Joussen, CEO of TUI Group: "TUI's development will continue to be very international and again focused on growth. I am very pleased that Nina Scherf, with her extensive experience, wants to actively shape TUI's future. As a member of the Group Executive Committee, she will assume responsibility for the global legal and compliance area. With her international team, she will be an important advisor and strategic partner for the Group and its subsidiaries on our joint course for growth and the future."

About TUI Group

The TUI Group is one of the world's leading tourism groups and operates worldwide. The Group is headquartered in Germany. TUI shares are listed in the MDAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and in the regulated market of the Lower Saxony Stock Exchange in Hanover. TUI Group offers its 19 million customers integrated services from a single source and forms the entire tourism value chain under one roof. The Group owns over 400 hotels and resorts with premium brands such as RIU, TUI Blue and Robinson and 17 cruise ships, ranging from the MS Europa and MS Europa 2 in the luxury class and expedition ships in the HANSEATIC class to the Mein Schiff fleet of TUI Cruises and cruise ships operated by Marella Cruises in the UK. The Group also includes Europe's leading tour operator brands and online marketing platforms, for example for hotel-only or flight-only offers, five airlines with more than 130 modern medium- and long-haul aircraft and around 1,200 travel agencies. In addition to expanding its core business with hotels and cruises via successful joint ventures and activities in vacation destinations, TUI is increasingly focusing on the expansion of digital platforms. The Group is transforming itself into a global tourism platform company.  

Global responsibility for sustainable economic, environmental and social action is at the heart of our corporate culture. With projects in 25 countries, the TUI Care Foundation initiated by TUI focuses on the positive effects of tourism, on education and training and on strengthening environmental and social standards. In this way, it supports the development of vacation destinations. The globally active TUI Care Foundation initiates projects that create new opportunities for the next generation.