Julius Ernst (1959) has a Master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from the Technical University of Graz. He is currently deputy director of the division for cadastral offices at the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying in Austria. He is responsible for cadastral tasks and represents Austria in in national and international bodies.

Apart from being a Bureau member at the WPLA, he is also head of the Coordinating Committee of the Cadastre and Land registry Knowledge Exchange of EuroGeographics. Furthermore he is a University lecturer for cadastre at the Technical University of Vienna and at the University of Agriculture of Vienna.