Walter Radermacher is Honorary Professor of the Institute for Statistics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He is also Chair of the Advisory Board on Ethics of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and President of the Federation of European National Statistical Societies (FENStatS). He studied business economics in Aachen and Münster and obtained his PhD in Statistical Sciences from Sapienza University, Rome. From 1975, he was member of the academic staff in economic mathematics and operations research at the University of Münster. He started his career at the Federal Statistical Office of Germany in 1978. During the nineties, he set up the environmental economic accounting which brought him wide international acknowledgement. In 2003, Walter Radermacher is named Vice-president of the Federal Statistical Office and became its President in 2006.