The Sport and Social Responsibility Summit

Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Economics at Cass Business School, which he joined in 2007 after previously working at Imperial College and London Business School. He specialises in the economics of business and sport and has written over 100 scholarly articles as well as six books (including most recently “Why England Lose” with Simon Kuper) and two edited books.

In 2009 he established the Sports Business Network at Cass which aims to undertake cutting edge research on the role of sport in society from the academic perspectives such as economics, psychology and law, so as to be resource for businesses, government and the third sector.

He has consulted to government departments and sports governing bodies on a variety of sports issues including competition policy and broadcast rights, the impact of 2012 games and the funding of grassroots sport in Europe.

In his current research he is focusing on the relationship between health, wellbeing and sports participation.