Ansgar Seyfferth is in charge of the business in Spain of STAT-UP Statistical Consulting & Data Science, which he set up in Madrid with the support of the company’s head office in Munich (Germany). They offer statistical consulting and data science services to solve all kind of business and scientific problems, as well as training, in companies of different sectors, government and research. He also teaches statistics as an invited professor at Universidad de Alcalá and data visualization as an adjunct professor at IE Business School. Holding a MSc and BSc in Physics and a Diploma in Economics and Business Administration from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany) as well as a Master in Mathematical Engineering from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Ansgar has been based in Madrid since 1995 working in dynamic and international environments, in areas such as IT-, technical, mathematical and statistical consulting as well as in design and sales of complex IT-systems and solutions, including instruction in these areas. He is (co)author of several scientific publications and writes about issues related to data and statistics in different contexts for example in the Spanish newspapers El País, The Huffington Post and infoLlibre, or the Agenda of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Ansgar also collaborates with the leading Spanish think tank Fundación Alternativas and supported the executive board of the Hispanic-German Society of Young Managers. Besides his mother tongue German, he is bilingual in Spanish, speaks an excellent English, and has a reasonable command of both Portuguese and French.