About Us

VECA is a small company working with a team of consultants in a network that allows communication whilst improving our knowledge and experience to offer effective solutions to our clients. Our associates include PLANET S.A.,DGSI, Pohl Consulting & Associates, München, Swedish Development Advisers AB, Göteborg, Statisticon Uppsala Uppsala, QSTREAM, software developers, Stockholm.

Formed in 1997, VECA is owned by Brian Wicklin. We produce about 5-8 annual statistical reports per year, covering areas including statistical and economic research, appraisal and feasibility studies, market surveillance based on EU Directives and consumer protection and surveys and project identification.

We work in close co-operation with the Offices of National Statistics in Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån), National Research Institutes and the subject area specific offices of international organisations.

VECA and Brian Wicklin are members of the Swedish Society for Marketing Research. Brian Wicklin is also a member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) the governing body for statisticians around the world and the Swedish Statistical Society.

Brian Wicklin was employed by National Statistical Office of Sweden from 1968 to 1996, and has extensive research experience in compilation and presentation of national statistics e.g. Management and compilation of micro/macro statistics for business sector. Classifications. Compilation of official statistical data for Nordic countries. Household surveys. Developing best practices concepts for data capture and integrated statistics for subject specific areas e.g. gambling, tobacco and smoking, health, quality of life and lifestyles, household surveys. Dissemination of accurate and timely statistics. Institutional strengthening in emerging economies. Market surveillance implementation. EU international expert and Team Leader for EU funded projects in Armenia, ASEAN, Bosnia & Herzogovina, China P.R, Egypt, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey.

He was elected as a member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1995 and holds the Swedish award "Statistician of the Year, 1989" for pioneering work in developing new areas of statistics and making them available on a user friendly basis.

International Experience

ASEAN countries: Appraisal of EC-ASEAN Statistical Capacity Building Programme.
Albania: Advisory services for establishment of appropriate administrative structures in the Ministry of Economy for Marketing Surveillance for consumer products and safety and dialogue with the Albanian Consumer Association (ACA). Link to www.ms-albania.info.
Armenia: Poverty reduction strategy evaluation and assessment of statistical needs.
Azerbaijan: Support to the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan development towards compliance with international and EU standards and in drafting a Twinning Fiche.
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Create a registry of households from a master sample survey at the State Statistical Institutes.
China P.R: Evaluation of EuropAid project on Chinas trade with EU at the State Statistical Institute.
Egypt: Re-organisation and capacity building of the Office of National Statistics (CAPMAS). Workshop on market surveillance based on EU best practices for Ministry officials at the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Latvia: Advisory services to set up market surveillance and work safety at the State Labour Inspectorate of the Ministry of Welfare.
Lithuania: Review and develop the INTRASTAT system for compiling and presentation of foreign trade data in goods.
Macedonia: Advisory services for creating the business register at the State Statistical Office of Macedonia. Technical support to market surveillance system and consumer protection based on EU best practices.
Mynamar and CLMV countries: Methodology for compiling and analysis of foreign trade in goods with introduction to INTRASTAT.
Romania: Regional socio-economic analysis for the National Development Plan 2004-2006. Data capture and SWOT analysis at the Ministry of Development and Prognosis.
Romania: Advisory services on strengthening market surveillance for consumer products and safety, business to business micro-macro data analysis/consumer dialogue at the Consumer Protection Authority (ANPC).
Slovakia: Foreign trade statistics and adoption to EU standards (Intrastat) at the Statistical Central Office.
Turkey: Advisory services for establishment of appropriate administrative structures in the Ministry of Industry and Trade for Marketing Surveillance and use of business micro-macro data.
Turkey: Business unit's capture and entry in business register and impact on 2003 census of business.

Please feel free to view Brian Wicklin's CV's (resumes); they are available in PDF formats only.

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