SCOPE 2019 Keynote speakers ![]() World Values Survey Association, University of Vienna & United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain Since 2013, Christian W. HAERPFER is the President of the World Values Survey Association (WVSA), which manages the World Values Survey (WVS) - the largest academic and large-scale cross-national survey and scientific infrastructure in social sciences on values systems, value change in general and values of civilizations in particular. Previously, he helped found and worked intensively on regional comparative surveys such as the New Democracy Barometer – NDB, which studied social transformation and societal well-being in post-Communist Europe during the first post-Cold War decade, and the Eurasia Barometer - EAB, which has been analyzing social, economic and cultural change in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova), South Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) since the beginning of 2000. Between 2012 and 2015, he also conducted applied sociological research in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Iraq, Egypt and Jordan Professor Haerpfer was the Founding Chair of the Research Committee No 17 on ‘Comparative Public Opinion’ of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and in his capacity as “Research Committees Liaison Representative” he was Member of the Executive Committee of IPSA (Montreal, Canada) between 2016 and 2018. |