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Georges-Simon Ulrich (born 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 United Nations Statistical Commission.

Life and work

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From 1992 onwards, Georges-Simon Ulrich held top management positions in market, social and opinion research.[1][2] In 2011, he assumed the role of Director of LUSTAT Statistics Lucerne, the public statistical office of the Canton of Lucerne.[3] In June 2013, he was appointed Director General of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office by the Federal Council, taking office in October 2013.[4]

Georges-Simon Ulrich represented Switzerland as a member of the Bureau of the United Nations Statistical Commission for 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 Chair.[5]

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.[6] He obtained his “Doctor of Business Administration” from the same university for a thesis on stakeholder management and communication.[7] He is also active as professor for strategic management and research methods at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration.[8]

Publications

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  • 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: Hochschul Relationship 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, pp. 281–288.
  • Peter Atteslander, Georges-Simon Ulrich, Andreas Hadjar: Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. Erich Schmid, 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. vol. 53, no. 1, 2024, pp. 95–103, doi: 10.17713/ajs.v53i1.1649.

References

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  1. ^ Denise Weisflog: FH-Absolvent mit Doktorat, In: Handelszeitung. 5 December 2013, pp. 49.
  2. ^ Mitglieder des Vorstandes GfS (memento from 8 February 2007 at [Internet Archive])
  3. ^ Roger Rüegger: Steiler Aufstieg zum höchsten Statistiker der Schweiz. In: Luzerner Zeitung. 31. Juli 2013. https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/zentralschweiz/luzern/beruf-steiler-aufstieg-zum-hoechsten-statistiker-der-schweiz-ld.102135
  4. ^ Georges-Simon Ulrich named new Director of Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Press release. https://www.news.admin.ch/de/nsb?id=49275 (de, fr, it)
  5. ^ UN Statistical Commission: Bureau of the United Nations Statistical Commission. https://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/documents/Table-SC-Bureau.pdf
  6. ^ Denise Weisflog: FH-Absolvent mit Doktorat, In: Handelszeitung. 5 December 2013, pp. 49.
  7. ^ Stefan Mair, Bärbel Schwertfeger: Doktortitel nach Feierabend, In: Handelszeitung. 8 October 2014. https://www.handelszeitung.ch/management/doktortitel-nach-feierabend-679399
  8. ^ Mike Gadient: «Wir sind keine grauen Mäuse und Erbsenzähler». In: Züriost. 16 May 2020. https://zueriost.ch/wirtschaft/2020-05-16/wir-sind-keine-grauen-maeuse-und-erbsenzaehler
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  • Georges-Simon Ulrich, Lebenslauf auf der Website des Bundesamts für Statistik. Bundesamt für Statistik. "Directorate". Retrieved 2024-03-03.
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