Ineke Stoop has been the Chair of ESAC since 2014. She is Head of Methodology at The Netherlands Institute for Social Research¦SCP, a government agency which conducts research into the social aspects of all areas of government policy. She obtained her Ph.D. in social sciences from Utrecht University for a thesis on survey non-response. She is also Deputy Director Methodological of the European Social Survey. Dr Stoop is co-founder of the Dutch Platform for Survey Research, laureate of the 2005 Descartes Prize for Excellence in Scientific Collaborative Research, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She has taught courses on non-response, survey design and comparative surveys, and has authored articles, chapters and books on the same topics.
