Christian Welzel

Christian Welzel (born 1964) is a German political scientist at the Leuphana University Lueneburg and director of research at the World Values Survey Association.

He worked as a senior research fellow in the department of “Institutions and Social Change” of the Social Science Research Center Berlin and qualified as professor at the Free University of Berlin.

In the same year, he became research professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Welzel also spends much time in the United States, where he maintains close ties with researchers and professors from the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine.

Welzel is responsible for the German part of the survey, which involves 2000 face-to-face interviews.