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CWT appoints new chief traveller experience officer
Carlson Wagonlit Travel has appointed Niklas Andréen as executive vice president and chief traveller experience officer.
His appointment will start in September and he will report to president and CEO Kurt Ekert as well as serve as joining the executive leadership team.
Swedish national Andréen will oversee worldwide Traveller Services, which is being rebranded as Traveller Experience.
He will take over these responsibilities from Matt Beatty, who has decided to leave the company later this year.
Andréen joins from Travelport where his current position is senior vice president and managing director of hospitality, car, digital media and corporate.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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