Dr. Stefan Szymanski is the Stephen J. Galetti Professor of Sport Management at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology (US). Dr. Szymanski completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, and received his PhD in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London. As a leading expert in the economics of sports in general and soccer in particular, he is widely quoted in the media and has written op-eds for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Financial Times. Dr. Szymanski has authored more than one hundred academic papers published in reviewed journals, mostly on the economics and history of sport.

He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Soccernomics (with Simon Kuper), the fifth edition of which appeared in 2022.