Simon Kuper
Journalist and author
Simon Kuper is a journalist and author who has worked at the Financial Times since 1994. He wrote Soccernomics.
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Born 1969 in Kampala, Uganda
About Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper was born in Uganda to South African parents and spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands. He studied at the University of Oxford and Harvard University, and also at the Technische Universität Berlin. He began his journalism career at the Financial Times in 1994. There he has written on politics, society, culture, the arts and sport. His articles have appeared in other newspapers and magazines too, and Soccernomics is one of several books he has written.