The World Values Survey Association is a global network of Social Scientists and survey researchers from over 120 world countries.
The mission of the World Values Survey is to provide a better understanding of the role of human beliefs in the massive social transformations that reshape today's world. By providing the surveys as a public good, the association delivers an invaluable tool for scholars around the world to study the human component of social change. The association is strongly committed to peace, justice, equality, freedom, humanitarian values and inter-cultural dialogue.
The association is managed by an Executive Committee that is voted for a six- years term. Since June 1, 2014, the executive committee consists of the following people:
Christian Haerpfer (Austria) - President
Alejandro Moreno (Mexico) - Vice-President, Treasurer
Christian Welzel (Germany) - Vice-President
Bi Puranen (Sweden) - Member at large
Pippa Norris (USA) - Member at large
Eduard Ponarin (Russia) - Member at large
Marta Lagos (Chile) - Member at large
Ronald Inglehart (USA) - Founding President
Jaime Diez-Medrano (Spain) - Data archive
The Executive Committee is assisted by the Scientific Advisory Committee, consisting of the following people:
Juan Diez-Nicolas (Spain) - Chair
Yilmaz Esmer (Turkey) - Vice-Chair
Marita Carballo (Argentina) - Vice-Chair
Catalina Romero (Peru) - Member at large
Ian McAllister (Australia) - Member at large
Linda Luz Guerrero (Philippines) - Member at large
Renata Simienska (Poland) - Member at large
David Rotman (Russia) - Member at large
Seiko Yamazaki (Japan) - Member at large
Fares Braizat (Jordan) - Member at large