WVSA is deeply saddened by the passing of Ronald Inglehart on May 8th, 2021. Ron was one of the greatest Political Scientists of our contemporary world, teacher to many, a true mastermind and the Founder of the World Values Survey - one of his many outstanding legacies. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends.

"Why the future is democratic" by the Vice-President of the World Values Survey Association and Professor at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Christian Welzel became the No1 most read essay of the Journal of Democracy in 2021.

Keeping New Zealand in the World Values Survey, 1985-2019: A Brief Project History and Selected New Zealand Social Trends from the World’s Largest Non-Commercial Social Survey - by the WVS PI for New Zealand Professor Paul Perry (School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University) and Polly Yeung (School of Social Work, Massey University) in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of Social Issues.

On November 26, WVSA Vice-President Professor Chris Welzel spoke on "Nationology": Nations as Gravitational Fields of Human Culture at the latest edition of the Culture and Values Webinar Series organized by Plamen Akaliyski.

On November 19-20, the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey Association held their annual meeting. The event took place in Stockholm, Sweden and was organized in a mixed format with the members of the EC joining in person and online. Participants included WVSA President Christian Haerpfer, WVSA Vice-President and Treasurer Alejandro Moreno, WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel, Pippa Norris, Data archive director Jaime Diez Medrano, Marta Lagos, Bi Puranen, and Eduard Ponarin. The agenda included both summary of the WVS wave 7 and planning of the next WVS-8 survey round.