Thomas Burg holds a master degree in Mathematics achieved at technical university of Vienna. After starting his professional career 1990 in the private sector he joined 1993 Statistics Austria where he gained 15 years-experience as methodological expert. In 2008 he was appointed as quality manager of Statistics Austria and since 2014 he is holding the position as head of the unit Quality Management and Methods. Besides his activities on European level as Austrian representative of the Directors of Methodology Group (DIME) and the Working Group Quality he was involved in the Task Force developing the 2nd round of Peer Reviews. He acted as project leader and co-chair of the program committee when Statistics Austria and Eurostat organized the European Conference on Quality in Statistics in Vienna 2014 (Q2014) and was a member of the program committee for the conferences in Helsinki (Q2010) and Madrid (Q2016).
