Director General (Statistics) Manuela Lenk
Manuela Lenk has been Director General (Statistics) of Statistics Austria since September 2025. With an academic background in Sociology, she began her career at Statistics Austria in 2004 in the field of household budget surveys. She subsequently advanced through key leadership roles, including heading the Census and Business Register Division and later the Department for Registers, Classifications and Geoinformation, where she contributed significantly to strengthening Austria’s core data infrastructure.
Lenk further strengthened her international profile during her subsequent tenure at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, where she served as Vice Director, Member of the Executive Board and Head of the Interoperability and Registers Division. In this role, she was instrumental in establishing the office as a national data steward, building Switzerland’s central interoperability platform and leading complex cross-government programmes.
Lenk has been an active contributor to the international statistical community, representing both national statistical institutes (NSIs) in key bodies such as Eurostat, the OECD, and the United Nations. Her work has helped shape global approaches to the modernisation of official statistics with a strong focus on the importance of data interoperability.
Director General (Finance) Franz Haslauer
Since January 2024, Franz Haslauer is the Director General of Statistics Austria responsible for the commercial management. Previously, from 2016, he was the sole managing director of the Österreichische Mensen Betriebsgesellschaft, for which he had been a member of the supervisory board since 2012. His focus in this position was on strategy development, quality management and digitalisation. Previously, as a partner and managing director of a consulting company, Haslauer advised and supported public institutions in tourism and healthcare in their further development for fifteen years. Further stages in his professional career included managing the Wigast Group in Austria and Germany and the position as Chief Financial Officer at Semperit Holding, for which he also worked in Paris and Thailand.
Franz Haslauer studied law in Salzburg. He then completed a degree in economics at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He gained his first professional experience at Raiffeisen Zentralbank.