Dr Walter J. Radermacher was Director General of Eurostat and Chief Statistician of the European Union from 2008 to 2016. He worked at Destatis, the German Federal Statistical Office, for 30 years, ultimately serving as its President. From 2005 to 2008, he was the first Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) and, from 2013 to 2018, a member of the OECD’s High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. Since 2023, he has been the Vice-President of FENStatS, the Federation of European National Statistical Societies, after having served as its President since 2017. Since 2022, he has been Chair of the ISI Advisory Board on Ethics and an (honorary) Professor at the Statistical Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Walter Radermacher is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Fellow for 2023.

Book:

Radermacher, Walter J. (2020). Official Statistics 4.0 - Verified Facts for People in the 21st Century (Springer Nature, Heidelberg). Link to book.