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The Nation Builder Program presents a keynote talk with Declan Hill, Associate Professor, PhD, investigative journalist whose work focuses on corruption, match-fixing, organized crime, and sport integrity, and whose book The Fix: Organized crime and soccer became an international bestseller in 21 languages.
About Declan Hill, Associate Professor, PhD
Declan Hill is an associate professor of investigations at the University of New Haven. He specializes in the study of organized crime and corruption specifically in international sport. His first book ‘The Fix: Organized crime and soccer’ is about Hill infiltrating a group of Asian match-fixers as they fixed matches at the World Cup. It has become a best-seller in twenty-one languages, optioned in Hollywood and helped catalyze thirty-four national police investigations.
His second book, ‘The Insider’s Guide to Match-Fixing in Football’ is specifically written for sports and government officials on how to prevent corruption. It has been published in Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese and English. He has just signed a contract with a UK publisher for his next book.
Hill was an investigative journalist and news presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He has done stories on the murder of the head of Canadian mafia, Honour Killings in Kurdistan, Blood Feuds in Kosovo, the Underground Railway for Iraqi women and the close connections between NHL stars and the Russian Mafiya.
As an academic, Hill has published numerous peer-reviewed academic articles on the subject of sports corruption and gambling. His work has also appeared in over-one thousand international media outlets including, The New York Times, BBC, PBS Frontline, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Times (London). He has won numerous awards for his work, including Amnesty International’s Best Human Rights Documentary, Play the Game (Denmark) and the Canadian Association of Journalists.
Hill has testified before legislative committees at the European Parliament in Brussels, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the UK Parliament in Westminster and the bi-partisan Helsinki Committee on Human Rights at the US Congress in Washington.
Hill speaks fluent English, French, Spanish and Italian. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford and is a keen amateur boxer who trains in Havana, Cuba.
A Q&A session will follow the keynote, moderated by Tim Hutzel, General Counsel, Soccer Canada, and featuring Professor Richard McLaren (Western Law), McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP.
Location:
Schulich Hall (Theatre) - Frank Holmes Centre
Huron University
