Simon Kuper is a Financial Times columnist. He has a weekly column in FT Weekend, writing about all sorts of topics – social, economic, political and even sport. He joined the Financial Times in 1995, wrote a daily column on the currency market for a while, and later wrote the newspaper’s weekly sports column for eight years. He specialises in the anthropology and the economics of sports.

Kuper is British, of South African origin, lives in Paris, and is the author of Football Against the Enemy (winner of the William Hill prize for Sports Book of the Year 1994), Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War (2003, shortlisted for the William Hill prize), and – as co-author with Stefan Szymanski - Soccernomics (2009).

Kuper also writes for magazines and newspapers in Japan, China, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and other countries. He studied at Oxford, Harvard and the Technische Universität of West Berlin.