Dr. Gabriella Vukovich
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Place and date of birth Budapest, 25 November 1954 |
Qualifications, trainings:
| 1999 | Professional exam of public administration for civil servants |
| 1997 | Degree in European affairs École Nationale d’Administration, Paris, in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary |
| 1984-1985 | Training in demography HCSO - Demographic Research Institute |
| 1976-1981 | doctorate degree Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law |
Employment
| June 2010 - | Hungarian Central Statistical Office | President |
| 2004-2010 | DEMO-STAT Consultants - Social Studies, Demography, Statistics | Manager |
| 1998-2004 | Hungarian Central Statistical Office | Deputy President |
| 1996-1998 | Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Population Census Department | Head of Department |
| 1994-1995 | UN Secretariat, New York, USA | Specialist in Population and Development |
| 1990-1994 | Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Population Department, Vital Statistics Section |
Head of Section |
| 1988-1989 | Population Activities Unit, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland | Demographer |
| 1983-1988 | HCSO - Demographic Research Institute | Research Fellow |
Major professional functions and titles
| Vice-President of the International Statistical Institute (ISI; a global professional civil society organisation embracing official statisticians, university teachers of and researchers in statistics, and statisticians in the private sector) | 2019–2023 |
| Member of the Council of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) | 2017–2019 |
| Member of the working group on quality of the European Commission’s high-level independent scientific advisory board | 2016- |
| Co-chair of the UN High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for monitoring UN Sustainable Development Goals between 2015 and 2030 | 2015- | Honorary doctorate ’Doctor honoris causa’ (University of Miskolc) title | 2015 |
| Member of the UN Secretary General’s Independent Advisory Board on Data Revolution | 2014- | Commemorative medal of the University of West Hungary (Pro Universitate Hungariae Occidentalis) | 2014 |
| Honorary professor (University of Miskolc) | 2013- |
| Member of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) | 2012- |
| Member of the Advisory Board of the Budapest Business School | 2011- |
| Teacher of social statistics and demography at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics | 2004-2009 |
| Standing member of the European Statistical System Committee | 2010- |
| Member of the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS) | 2010- |
| Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN Statistical Commission | 2010- |
| Vice-Chair of the UN Statistical Commission | 2014-2015 |
| Chair and Acting Chair of the UN Statistical Commission | 2012-2014 |
| Member of the editorial board of "Statistical Journal" (UN Economic Commission for Europe) | 1994-2000 |
| Member of the editorial board of the periodical "Hungarian Statistical Review" | 1998-2004 |
| Member of the Advisory Board of the European Population Forum | 2004 |
| Member of the governing board of the Siena Group on Social Statistics (a professional group established under the aegis of the UN for developing social statistics) | 2003-2004 |
| Member of the "Future of European social statistics" Task Force of Eurostat | 2002-2003 |
| Member of joint UN/EU working groups elaborating international recommendations for the 2000 round of population censuses | 1996-1998 |
| Member of the Population Committee of the Council of Europe, and of its sub-committees for ethnic minorities, demographic ageing and old-aged people | 1996-2002 |
| Vice Chair of the UN Commission on Population and Development, New York | 1999 |
| Vice Chair and rapporteur of the 21st special session of the UN General Assembly, New York | 1999 |
| Chair of the UN European Population Conference | 1998 |
Languages
| Hungarian, English, French, German |