The Whitehall Group were delighted to welcome Simon Kuper from the Financial Times / British-French author and Journalist as guest speaker during a Whitehall Group Dinner on Wednesday, 13th December 2023. During dinner Simon discussed: ‘Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories took over the UK’.
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, Simon 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.
Simon publishes a well-read column in the weekend edition FT Magazine and has twice been awarded the British Society of Magazine Editors‘ prize for Columnist of the Year. Kuper has also written for outlets such as The Guardian and The Times.
Simon’s unique approach to sports writing, particularly on football, has earned him several prestigious accolades, including the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He writes about sports “from an anthropological perspective.” Time Magazine has called him “one of the world’s leading writers on soccer” and The Economic Times labeled him “one of the world’s most famous football writers.”
Simon Kuper is the author of several books, among them the William Hill awarded Football Against the Enemy and the Sunday Times Bestseller about UK politics, Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK.
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The Whitehall Group is a high level policy discussion and thought leadership group whose members are mainly Cambridge alumni or those connected with the University of Cambridge. The Whitehall Group, a forum of the Cambridge University Land Society (CULS) hosts a series of lunches and dinners for approximately 15 – 20 attendees under the Chatham House Rules. The forum allows members and their guests to meet and discuss matters that are outside of their regular business / professional lives. We count amongst our members and supporters current and former Ministers, Diplomats and senior business executives. Past speakers have included Ambassadors, Ministers, Commissioners and leading academics and journalists. Speakers are invited to talk to the group on a current subject of political or economic interest.
