Social Statistics: Director Niels Ploug
Photograph by Martin Sylvest
Niels Ploug, Director of Social Statistics
Tel. job: + 45 39 17 39 51
Tel. mobile: + 45 20 33 08 75
Born
12 March 1960
Education
Master of Science (MSc) in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1985
Management course, Danish Management Forum, 1997
Employment
| 2008 - | Director of Social Statistics, Statistics Denmark |
| 2004 - | Part-time lecturer in economic sociology, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen |
| 2002 - | Member of the national corps of external examiners in sociology |
| 1995 - 2008 | Research Director - SFI - The Danish National Centre for Social Research |
| 1992 - | Part-time lecturer in empirical economics, CBS - Copenhagen Business School |
| 1992 - 1995 | Head of Research Unit, SFI – the Danish National Centre for Social Research |
Assignments
| 2021 - | Member of the national board of data for health and elderly |
| 2021 - | Member of the national partnership for health data |
| 2021 - | Danmarks Nationalbank - Research Unit Advisory Council |
| 2020 - | Chair of the UN Task Team on Big Data for the SDGs |
| 2020 - | Appointed by the Danish Minister of Children and Education as a member of the Danish UNESCO National Commission |
| 2020 - | Board member of the DEA think tank |
| 2019 - | Chair of the steering group for the Our Goals project – Danish indicators for the SDGs |
| 2018 - | Member of the University of Copenhagen Board of Representatives |
| 2016 - | Member of TrygFonden’s advisory board for research |
| 2016 - | In charge of Statistics Denmark’s involvement in the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) |
| 2015 - 2020 | ESSnet, Eurostat - on Quality of Multisource statistics (head) |
| 2014- | UN Global Working Group on Big Data for official statistics – chair |
| 2014 - | Chair of the board, Christianshavns Gymnasium |
| 2012 - 13 | Member of the Governmental Expert Group on Poverty |
| 2008 - | DSS – Directors of Social Statistics, Eurostat |
| 2007- | Chair of the advisory board, Department of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen |
| 2007 - | Member of the SAMF Advisory Board, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen |
| 2006 - | Member of the advisory council for the Economic Council of the Labour Movement |
| 2006 - 2010 | Member of the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (UVVU) |
Editorial work
| 2019 - | Member of the editorial team for the textbook series ‘Erhverv og Samfund’, DJØF Publishing |
| 1996 - 2018 | Member of the editorial board of SAMFUNDSØKONOMEN (editor 1996-2001) |
| 1995 - | International Social Security Review |
| Reviewer for Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (national economics journal) | |
| Reviewer for Dansk Sociologi (Danish sociology journal) | |
| Reviewer for Tidsskrift for velfærdsforskning (welfare research journal) | |
| Reviewer for European Journal of Sociology | |
| Reviewer for Acta Sociologica |
Research management
| 2007 - 2008 | Head of the inter-institutional working group for establishing a centre for survey and register data research (CSSR) |
| 2004 - | Co-chair of the research programme on welfare state architecture in collaboration with University of Aalborg |
| 1999 - 2005 | Head of the research programme on negative social legacy |
| 1994 - 1998 | Co-chair of Danish Centre for Welfare State Research in collaboration with University of Southern Denmark |
| 1992 - 1999 | Head of the SFI research programme on social security in Europe |
Awards
| 1989 | Copenhagen Business School - Teaching Award |
| 1988 | LauritzenFonden’s prize paper on the future of the welfare society |
Publications in English
Niels Ploug et.al (ed): Nordic Social Policy - changing welfare states, Routledgde. 1999
Niels Ploug (2012): The Danish Flexicurity Model and Old Age Protection, in Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reform, Palgrave Macmillan.
Niels Ploug (2014): Investing in people to promote activation and empowerment: The case of Denmark and lessons for other countries, International Social Security Review, vol 67.