Presentation
New wine in old bottles: the ‘wasteful’ market structure of English football - Play the Game 2007 (PP Pdf.)
Brian Sturgess is the Managing Editor of World Economics, and is also publisher and editor-in-chief of Soccer Business World, a research company supplying clients in the football industry across the world.
He is currently a researcher in sport economics at the University of Bournemouth and an adviser to the Chilean Football Federation, but has been investigating the relationships between sovereign debt and economic performance. A
former lecturer in economics at a number of universities, he has published widely in books, academic articles and in the press on the areas of the economics of advertising, the media and sports.
He spent nearly 20 years working as an investment analyst and consultant to a number of merchant banks and media companies, including the BBC, the Telegraph Group, the Warc, Tyne-Tees Television, Barclays, NatWest and ING Barings, on the financing and economics of media enterprises.
He has also been a consultant to the European Commission on sport, culture and broadcasting. |