Mr. Georges-Simon Ulrich
Director General of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Mr. Georges-Simon Ulrich was appointed Director General of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) in October 2013. From May 2011 until September 2013 he headed LUSTAT, the Canton of Lucerne's official statistics institution and was responsible for its operational, scientific and methodological management. Before he held several top management positions notably as CEO and President of the Board of Directors of the d&s Institute for market and communication research and CEO and President of the Board of the gfs research institute. Since February 2013 he has been giving lectures in strategic management and research methods as professor at different institutions such as at the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration in Zurich. Georges-Simon Ulrich was born on 17 August 1968, has Swiss citizenship, is married and has two children.