Jean-Pierre Poncelet has an academic background in Management, Economics, Accounting and Tax matters. Most of his professional career has been spent in various public organisations at national and European level. He is currently Head of the unit “Statistics for administrative purposes” in Eurostat. He previously headed the unit “Quality, Government Finance Statistics” and was co-chair of the programme committee for the 2016 Quality Conference, which was organised together with INE Spain. He also headed the private office of Eurostat’s Director General for almost five years, from 2010 to 2014.
