Ruud de Moor


Ruud Alphons de Moor was a Dutch professor of sociology linked to the University of Tilburg and the Open University in the Netherlands.
With Jan Kerkhofs he started the European Values Study which later grew out to become the World Values Survey.
The Ruud de Moor centrum of the Open University in the Netherlands was named after him being a founder and in honour of his influence on reform of higher education in the Netherlands.