Draft:Georges-Simon Ulrich

Georges-Simon Ulrich (* 17 August 1968 in Fribourg, Switzerland) has directed the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) since 2013. Since February 2024, he has also been the Chair of the UN Statistical Commission.

Life and work

From 1992 onwards, Georges-Simon Ulrich held top management positions in market, social and opinion research. In 2011, he assumed the role of Director of LUSTAT Statistics Lucerne, the public statistical office of the Canton of Lucerne. In June 2013, he was appointed Director General of the Federal Statistical Office by the Federal Council, taking office in October 2013.

Georges-Simon Ulrich represented Switzerland as a member of the Bureau of the UN Statistical Commissionfor the first time from 2017 to 2018. Since 2022 he has been a member of its Bureau, serving as Vice-Chair from 2022 to 2023. In February 2024, he was elected as the Commission's

Following studies in business administration at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration, Georges-Simon Ulrich completed a Master of Business Administration at the University of Southern Queensland. He obtained his Doctor ofBusiness Administration from the same university for a thesis on stakeholder management and communication.He is also active as professor for strategic management and research methods at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration.

Publications

• Georges Ulrich: Repositioning of a Stakeholder Issue applied at Pfizer Switzerland Haupt, Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-258-07514-3.
• Georges Ulrich: Repräsentative Umfragen: Auswahlverfahren und Ausschöpfung. In: Jahrbuch Verband Schweizer Markt- und Sozialforschung, 2009, pp. 26-29.
• Georges Ulrich, Rödiger Voss: HochschulRelationship Marketing. Josef Eul, Lohmar 2010, ISBN 978-3-89936-923-6.
• Georges-Simon Ulrich, Jürg Furrer: Wie Statistiker die Wohlfahrt messen. In: Die Volkswirtschaft, vol. 88, no. 1‒2, 2015, pp. 16-20.
• Georges-Simon Ulrich: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Die etwas andere Anleitung. Versus, Zurich 2017. ISBN: 978-3-039-09172-0.
• Claude Meier, Laurence Polfer, Georges-Simon Ulrich: Wissenschaftsmethodik: Das 1 x 1 für Business-Studierende. SKV, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-286-51481-2
• Georges-Simon Ulrich: Daten gemeinsam mit der Verwaltung nutzbar machen: Daten als Rohstoff für die Zukunft. In: Marc K. Peter (ed.): Strategieentwicklung im digitalen Zeitalter: Planung & Umsetzung der Digitalen Transformation. FHNW School of Business, Olten 2021/2022, ISBN: 978-3-03724-191-2, p.281-288.
• Peter Atteslander, Georges-Simon Ulrich, Andreas Hadjar: Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. Erich Schmid Verlag, Berlin 2023, ISBN 978-3-503-21276-7.
• Manuela Lenk, Georges-Simon Ulrich: National Data Management: A Modern Data Stewardship Approach for the Swiss Administration Enabled by the New Platform "I14Y Interoperability". In: Austrian Journal of Statistics Band 53, Nr. 1, 2024, pp. 95-103, doi:10.17713/ajs.v53i1.1649.

Weblinks

• Georges-Simon Ulrich, CV on the website of the Federal Statistical Office.
• Prof. Dr Georges-Simon Ulrich, personal LinkedIn profile.