Resume

I am an independent consultant with 30+ years of experience working at Statistics Denmark and as a consultant for statistical organisations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa. I have theoretical and practical expertise in change processes and in the production of official statistics that fulfils user needs — using statistical quality frameworks and standards such as GSBPM, GAMSO, BPM, GSIM, DDI and SDMX.

For the past 15 years I have specialised in change processes, quality and metadata. I took part in developing GSBPM, GAMSO and the quality reporting standards used in Europe.

Beyond general consultancy I offer the training course Sustainable changes using statistical quality frameworks and standards.

• Master in Political Science with specialisation in computers, University of Copenhagen (1997)
• B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (1986)
• Certified TOGAF 9.2 Enterprise Architect
• Certified Prince2 Foundation and Prince2 Practitioner
• Data Science Toolbox, Johns Hopkins University
• Quality Management in Statistical Agencies, European Statistical Training Programme, Eurostat

• Danish — excellent
• English — excellent
• Portuguese — basic
• Swedish — basic
• Norwegian — basic

• Artefact (Qatar) — Introduction to and guidance on Registerbased Census and Statistical Business register (2025 –)
• Hyphen (Saudi Arabia) — Introduction to the implementation of administrative data in a major statistical system in the Middle East (2024 – 2026)
• Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics — Key Expert on Promoting and Strengthening the Access to and Use of Official Statistics (2020 – 2024)
• Palestinian Bureau of Statistics (UN) — Consultant, handbook for the production of SDG indicators (2021)
• Statistics Greenland — Consultant, tool for statistical visualisation (2019 – 2020)
• Statistics Denmark — Chief Adviser, Head of Metadata (2015 – 2019)
• Central Bank of Bosnia-Herzegovina — Consultancy (2016 – 2017)
• Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) — Consultancy (2016)
• Statistics Denmark — Chief Adviser, Head of Quality and Metadata (2012 – 2015)
• Statistics Denmark — Adviser in International Consultancy (1999 – 2014). Missions to Bosnia, Kosovo, Jordan and Israel.
• Statistics Denmark — Chief Adviser on Register Strategy in Social Statistics (2006 – 2012)
• Statistics Denmark — Chief Adviser on Web-based Data Collection, Business Statistics (2004 – 2006)
• Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Mozambique — Long-Term Adviser posted in Mozambique (2002 – 2004)
• Statistics Denmark — Adviser in International Consultancy (1997 – 2000). Missions to Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.
• Statistics Denmark — Senior Adviser on Central Business Register (1996 – 2002)
• University of Copenhagen — Teacher, course on IT and society (1986 – 1989)

• Training in Quality Management for Statistics — World Bank project
• Training in Metadata for Statistics — World Bank project
• Training in metadata for EU member states — European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP)
• Internal training in Quality and Metadata — Statistics Denmark
• Assistant Professor — University of Copenhagen