Ms Sibylle von Oppeln-Bronikowski is currently Head of the strategic Department at the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis). She is responsible for strategic statistical issues, both national and European, especially related to Communication policy, Planning, Data Quality and R&D. After obtaining her diploma in economics, Sibylle joined Destatis in 1980 where she has fostered strategic innovations and developments on Quality and Communication. She has been invited to a preparatory round table in the run up to the high level conference “Power from Statistics” and co-authored an article on “new trends in communication” for an Outlook Report – the key input to this conference. Drawing on her longstanding expertise in official statistics and international affairs, Sibylle successfully co-chaired the Friends of the Chair on the implementation of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (FPOS) within the UN Statistical Commission. Sibylle is member of the scientific programme committee for IAOS2018 and of the advisory board on ethics of the ISI.
