Johan Lundgren

Johan Peter Lundgren was born in Sweden on 4 October 1966. He lived in Bondsjöhöjden, and went to school in Härnösand, on the eastern coast of mid-Sweden in Ångermanland. He left school at 16 to concentrate solely on music. From 1982 to 1985 Lundgren studied classical trombone in Sweden, the UK and the USA. He aspired to become a trombonist after listening to Christian Lindberg. He auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music, but was not accepted to the conservatoire as that year it was not accepting any trombone players.

Lundgren then moved to Gothenburg. He worked as a tour guide. He attended courses at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1993 and completed the Programme for Executive Development at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland in 1996.

TUI Group

In 1986, he joined Fritidsresor, a Swedish travel operator, which was later bought by TUI Group (TUI Sverige) in 2001.

Over the following decades he held a number of leadership positions within the TUI organisation in the Nordic region, the United Kingdom and Germany. In 2010 he became Managing Director of TUI Travel UK & Ireland. In 2011 he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of TUI Travel PLC and later held the same position at TUI AG following the merger of TUI AG and TUI Travel PLC in 2014.

Lundgren played a leading role in the integration of TUI AG and TUI Travel PLC, a cross-border merger that created one of the world's largest integrated tourism groups. Following completion of the merger, he served as a member of the Executive Board and Deputy CEO of TUI AG before leaving the company in 2015.