Christian Suter is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He has been a member of the board of the World Society Foundation since 1999, and its president since 2008. After receiving his PhD in sociology from the University of Zurich in 1988, he was Visiting Scholar at the Colegio de México (1995–1996), Visiting Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (2000), Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (1996–2002), and Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel (2003–2022). He is currently doing research on social indicators and quality of life, and on globalization and world society. Earlier research has focused on social and economic inequalities and poverty, sovereign debt and global debt crises, social and political transformations in Latin America, and social support and health. He has published and edited more than 40 books and special issues, as well as many articles in international social sciences journals, encyclopedias, and volumes. His most recent publications include The Global Politics of Census Taking (Routledge 2024),Measuring Gender Equality (Springer 2023), African-Asian Relations (LIT 2022), Measuring and Understanding Complex Phenomena (Springer 2021), The Middle Class in World Society (Routledge 2020), and Wealth(s) and Subjective Well-being (Springer 2019). He is the winner of the Book Award of the American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World-System Section (1993; for Debt Cycles in the World-Economy, Westview 1992) and he has been awarded the Fritz Thyssen Prize for articles in social sciences journals (1998), and the Research Fellow Award 2020 from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies for substantial contribution to quality-of-life research (2020). 
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