Studies: Law, Sociology and Political Science, University of Hamburg.
Current Position: President of the Hessian Statistical Office, since 1992.
Past Positions: Research assistant, Department of Law, University of Hamburg; Syndikus Business Consulting, Frankfurt am Main; Group Manager for the Hessian Chief Privacy Officer (Prof. Dr. Spiros Simitis); Head of division, domestic policy, legal policy, data protection, administrative reform, personnel administration, statistics, Hessian State Chancellery, from 1992; Member of the KVI and the Founding Committee of the RatSWD; Representative of the Bundesrat, Committee Statistical Program of the European Commission.
Main Areas of Research: Publications on data protection, administrative reform and statistics.
