Simon Kuper is a British, and naturalized French, author and journalist, best known for his work at the Financial Times and as a football writer.
After studies at Oxford, Harvard University and the Technische Universität Berlin, Kuper started his career in journalism at the FT in 1994, where he today writes about a wide range of topics, such as politics, society, culture, sports and urban planning.
He is named for his paternal grandfather, Simon Meyer Kuper, who was a South African Supreme Court judge assassinated in 1963.
Nowadays he writes a general column for the Weekend FT on all manner of topics from politics[10] to books, and on cities including London, Paris, Johannesburg and Miami.
[22] He has also contributed for many years to the FT's Weekend Magazine, as a Life & Arts columnist,[23] often with long-form essays and interviews spanning themes such as current affairs, travel, history and politics.
The authors subsequently put forward a formula allowing Kuper to predict that Serbia and Brazil would play the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.
[27] Also in 2021, Kuper released The Happy Traitor,[28] an account of the life and motivations of George Blake, a British spy for the Soviet Union.
[29] In 2022 he published Chums - How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK,[30][31][32] about the connections that enabled a university network to dominate Westminster.