Hans Ulrich SchudelChairman of the Board
Having studied law at the University of Basel and at the Free University of Berlin, Hans Ulrich Schudel completed his licentiate (lic. iur.) in 1976 and his bar exam in 1980.
From 1981 to 2016 he worked as a lawyer at his own office in Basel, since 2000 also as a mediator, since 2014 at his office in Bottmingen, canton Basel-Land. Furthermore, he has for many years been active on different governing boards (finance, culture) and in education and has different mandates on the boards of foundations in the areas of education,senior citizens and nature conservation. He has had to do with tourism since the early 1970s. For many years, Hans Ulrich Schudel worked as a tour guide. Furthermore, from 1981 to 1988 he was a member of the supervisory board and of the governing board (as president) of the cooperative “SSR-Reisen”. He is a co-founder and has since 2001 been vice president of the Swiss Foundation for Solidarity in Tourism (SST). Since 2004 he has been a member of the jury for the TO DO Award. For many years, he has been cooperating with the Institute for Tourism and Development through the SST Foundation, the TO DO Award, and joint strategy meetings. In 2018, he became chairman of the board of the Institute for Tourism and Development.