We are excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for the 78th Annual WAPOR Conference, which will take place May 12-15, 2025, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, in conjunction with the 80th Annual AAPOR Conference. This joint event is a leading forum for discussing advancements in public opinion and survey research, providing an opportunity for networking, learning about the latest research trends, and engaging with diverse experts from across the globe. The venue for the conjoined AAPOR and WAPOR conferences is the St. Louis Union Station. 

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to January 15, 2025, and we encourage submissions aligned with this year’s special conference theme, as well as other topics related to public opinion and survey research. The theme for 2025 reflects the complex and evolving landscape of election polls, focusing on the challenges and innovations that have emerged in a world increasingly shaped by political polarization, misinformation, and technological change. We welcome submissions on a variety of relevant topics, and look forward to your contributions to what promises to be a rich and insightful event.

Time flies! This is my 22^nd President’s Letter to our dear Members, and most likely to be the last one using this format.

I started my presidency with a Joint Presidents’ Letter straddling 2023 co-written by Tim Johnson and me, I will end my presidency with another Joint Letter straddling 2025 to be co-written by me and Christian Haerpfer, our next President.

After posting my Joint Letter with Tim in January 2023, I spent my first 100 days in office consulting members and consolidating ideas, one of which was to increase the frequency of our Presidents’ Letters to once per month. I stayed on course up to now, and I would like to thank all of you for bearing with me. Starting from July this year, inspired and impressed by members’ support for the creation and donation of short videos on Humanity, I started to add a two-minute President’s Video to each of my President’s Letter. The one you see here is my sixth video.

Yes, it is not yet time to bid farewell. We have one more Council Meeting in mid-December, and there are tons of reports and year plans to be discussed. What is more, along with the resolution of our recent constitutional crisis, Tim and I have pledged to provide as much support to our next President Christian as possible, because he has so kindly agreed to shorten his “apprenticeship as a Vice President (VP)” to only one month, in order to help us resolve our crisis in the easiest and most legitimate way. This I need to explain more, in order to clear up some doubts among some members.

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WAPOR Latin America, the regional chapter of the World Association for Public Opinion Research which brings together specialists in research on public opinion, communication and political behavior, will meet in the beautiful city of Florianópolis, southern Brazil, on occasion of its XI Congress, which will be an exclusively onsite event. During three days, from April 28 to 30, 2025, scholars, consultants, pollsters, professionals from private market and public opinion research agencies and specialists in the areas of social and political communication who focus in Latin America will meet at the premises of UFSC (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) for insightful exchanges of ideas, knowledge and experiences.

Dear WAPOR members,

WAPOR invites expressions of interest to expand the following our Committees:

• Finance Committee: 1 member

• Membership Committee: 2 members

The period of service shall be 2025-2026.

To learn more about the activities of the WAPOR committees, please, consult the WAPOR Constitution: https://wapor.org/about-wapor/constitution/ 

To learn about the committee chairs and other members, please, check the WAPOR website: https://wapor.org/about-wapor/committees/

WAPOR Committees are important bodies that both facilitate and guide the development of the Association. We very much look forward to welcoming new members aboard the WAPOR Committees!

The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) is seeking new National Representatives for the 2025-2026 term. National Representatives serve as the primary liaison between WAPOR and their respective countries, promoting WAPOR’s mission, fostering collaboration, and providing updates on public opinion research activities within their region. The list of countries open for nominations and self-nominations for the 2025-2026 term is included below.

Countries 

Afghanistan, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Canada, Congo, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, Guatemala, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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