Eric Schulte Nordholt is a senior researcher and project leader at Statistics Netherlands. after graduating in Mathematics and Econometrics, he joined Statistics Netherlands in 1992. he first worked in the department of Statistical Methods and since 1996 he is working in Social Statistics. in 1995 he had a secondment at Eurostat in Luxembourg and in 2006 at Statistics New Zealand. Eric Schulte Nordholt is Statistics Netherlands’ advisor on the Statistical Disclosure Control of social data and contributed many times to statistical courses. he is responsible for the Dutch Virtual Census where all tables are estimated based on already existing data sources (registers and surveys). Eric Schulte Nordholt presented his work at various conferences and has published in different refereed journals. Eric Schulte Nordholt is a member of the ISI, IAOS, IASS and Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research. Since 2018 he is also international coordinator of social statistics at Statistics Netherlands.