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.