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I am an independent consultant with 30+ years experience working at Statistics Denmark and as a consultant for statistical organisations in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa. I have theoretical and practical expertise in change processes and in production of official statistics fulfilling user needs using various statistical quality frameworks and statistical standards: the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM), and other models and standards: GAMSO, BPM, GSIM, DDI, SDMX etc

In the last 15 years I have specialized in change processes, quality and metadata. I took part in developing the standards GSBPM, GAMSO and quality reporting standards used in Europe.

Besides general consultancy I offer the training course: Sustainable changes using statistical quality frameworks and standards. Note: get free 30-90 minutes free consultation. http://Link: http://test2.organic-tea.org/sustainable-quality/

From 2012 to 2017 I headed the work on preparing and implementing the Strategy on Quality and Metadata for Statistics Denmark. The work was framed by the European Code of Practice (CoP) and Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). It included managing changes in all parts of a complex project on the implementation of an integrated and standardised quality and metadata-framework covering infrastructure, data, applications and processes. One of the results are standard based quality reports for 300 surveys. Link 

Recently I conducted two large 10 days trainings in quality management in official statistics in Bangladesh. The list of participants included persons from the Central Bank, the ministry of finance and other external organisations in Bangladesh. The training courses used partly the ideas offered in Sustainable changes using quality frameworks and standards.
The participants are now familiar with, and can use:

- a user-producer communication model
- UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.
- UN National Quality Assurance Framework (UN-NQAF).
- Quality reporting using the SDMX standard.
- the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM).
- the Generic Activity Model for Statistical Organisations (GAMSO)

See featured activitiy af my LinkedIn profile,

As an add-on to the training course on sustatiable changes I offer consultancy and the tool SDG coordinator. 

The main ideas behind SDG Coordinator are: data for the production of SDG indicators already exist, that solutions prepared must make sense for stakeholders and that the coordination must be supported by simple tools that contain relevant standardized metadata and other information to be disseminated and shared among stakeholders. See introduction, paper and presentation here: SDG Coordinator. We invite countries to try it out.

I have a particular interest in ensuring democratic fulfilment of user needs based on models for interaction between users, management (at all levels) and statistical production processes. Statistical information and other trushworthy information must be the evidence behind facts in the public debate. E.g. the implemention of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) must connect policitical goals (international and national) and initiatives with concrete implementation of SDG indicators.

Behind this interest lies a passion for political philosophy and theories of society. In my spare time I work on SDG-software and a book about Information in a Sustainable Society.

Master in Political Science with specialisation in computers (1997). University of Copenhagen, Denmark

B. Sc. Computer Science (1986), University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Cerfitied TOGAF 9.2 Enterprise Architect

Certification in Prince2 Foundation and Prince2 Practitioner,

Certification in Data Science Toolbox, Hopkins University,

Course in Quality Management in Statistical Agencies, European Statistical Training Program, Eurostat.

Courses in management: Personal leadership, Management and employees, Management and organisation.

Courses in IT Law, Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management., Enterprise Architecture, C# and ASP.NET.

Danish (excellent)

English (excellent)

Portuguese (basic)

Swedish (basic)

Norwegian (basic)

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Consultant, Key expert on Promoting and Strengthening the Access to and Use of Official Statistics (2020 - ) 

Palastine Bureau of Statistics (UN), Consultant, Development of Handbook for the production of SDG indicators (2021)

Statistics Greenland, Consultant, Development of tool for Statistical Visualisation. (2019 - 2020)

Statistics Denmark, Chief Adviser, Head of Metadata (2015 - 2019)

Central Bank of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nielsen Statistics Consulting, CEO (consultancy in 2016 - 2017)

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Nielsen Statistics Consulting, CEO (consultancy in 2016)

Statistics Denmark, Chief Adviser, Head of Quality and Metadata (2012 - 2015)

Statistics Denmark, Adviser in International Consultancy (Consultancy 1999 - 2014)
This included missions to Bosnia, Kosovo, Jordan and Israel. A mission covers planning (Terms of Reference), meetings, and report writing carried out in close cooperation with the organisation involved. 

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 Estatistica, Mozambique,  Long Term Adviser posted in Mozambique, (2002-2004) 

Statistics Denmark, Adviser in International Consultancy (Consultancy 1999 - 2000)
This included missions to Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya

Statistics Denmark, Adviser in International Consultancy (Consultancy 1997 - 1998)
This included missions to Uganda

Statistics Denmark, Senior Adviser on Central Business Register  (1996 - 2002)

University of Copenhagen, Teacher in Course on IT and society  (1986- 1989)

Training in Quality Management for Statistics at a  World Bank project 

Training in Metadata for Statistics at  a World Bank project 

Training in metadata for EU member states. Course provided as part of European Statistical Traning Program (ESTP)

Internal training in Quality and Metadata at Statistics Denmark

Assistent professor at University of Copenhagen

The Use of Administrative Data in Social Statistics in Denmark – Towards More Cooperation and Integration, Paper presented at IAOS Conference on Reshaping Official Statistics, Shanghai, China, 2008.

How do end users of statistics want metadata? Co-author: Lars Thygesen. Paper presented at Workshop on Statistical Metadata, Geneva, 2011. Link: Paper

How to fulfil user needs – metadata, administrative data and processes, Paper presented at The European Conference on Quality in Statistics – Q2012, Athens, 2012.

How to fulfil user needs – from industrial production of statistics to production of knowledge, Statistical Journal of the IAOS 00 (2013) 1–13, IOS Press. Link: Paper

Implementation of Eurostat Quality Declarations at Statistics Denmark with cost-effective use of standards. Co-author: Lars Thygesen. Paper presented at European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics, Vieanna 2-5 June 2014. Link: Paper

Fulfilling user-needs, improving quality and efficiency using GSIM and other standards. Paper and presentation at Workshop on Implementing Standards for Statistical Modernisation, The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, (2016) Links: Conference, Paper, Presentation  

Fulfilling user-needs and improving through statistical standards and Nordic Cooperation. Paper presented at Nordisk Stastistikermøde, Stockholm, 2016. Links: Paper

Towards common metadata using GSIM and DDI 3.2, IASSIST Quarterly, 40 Number 2 (2016). Link: http://iassistdata.org/iq/issue/40/2

Coordination and the role of quality and standards in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).  Co-author: Lars Thygesen. Paper presented at The European Conference on Quality in Offical Statistics (2022), Vilnius, Lithuania. Links: Paper, Presentation

Epistemological foundation, coordination, the role of quality and tools in the implementation of the Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Paper presented at the Luhmann Conference: Scientific communication. Observed with social system theory (September 2022), IUC, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Links: Paper, Presentation