Walter Radermacher was born on 10 June 1952 in Walheim. He studied business administration in Aachen and Münster from 1970 to 1975. After graduating with a degree in business administration, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Münster from 1975 to 1978. At the beginning of 1978, Walter Radermacher joined the Federal Statistical Office. After performing various tasks, he was finally Head of Administration at the Federal Statistical Office from 2001 to mid-2003.
In June 2003, he was assigned the duties of Vice-President on a trial basis, and from 24 December 2003, the function of Vice-President. After Walter Radermacher had been entrusted with deputising for the President from 6 October 2006, he was appointed President on 22 December 2006.
Since 19 January 2007, Walter Radermacher held the office of Federal Election Commissioner. He was appointed Director General of Eurostat with effect from 1 August 2008.
Dr. Marleen De Smedt, M.D. with specialisation in occupational health, public health and in statistics, is a former official of the European Commission/Eurostat, where she has worked for more than 25 years in various leading positions in the Directorate of social statistics, in particular in the field of public health and well being, and as an advisor for the Director General.
Lara Lusa is an Associate Professor of statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies of University of Primorska (Koper/Capodistria) and at the Medical Faculty of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has many years of research-experience in the field of medical Statistics, in which she also authored numerous publications in the field of virology and recently some on COVID-19-specific topics.
Hans Alberg has 40 years of experience as an engineer at Alfa-Laval and Ericsson in various positions, for example in reliability analysis and teletraffic theory. During his career he had extensive contact with the academic world. He has been a board member of the Swedish Statistical Society since 2015.
Fulvia Mecatti is Professor of Statistics at University of Milano-Bicocca with 30 years of experience as a researcher and as a teacher. She has excellent methodological and didactical knowledge in statistical literacy. Her research includes sampling designs and computer intensive statistical methods as applied to social, gender and health data. She is a former elected member of the board of the Italian Statistical Society and a former president of its Survey Sampling Methodologies section.