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Declan Hill is a journalist, academic and consultant. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on match-fixing and corruption in international sports. In 2008, Hill, as a Chevening Scholar, obtained his doctorate in Sociology at the University of Oxford.〔()〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Farewell from Martin Rose )〕〔() 〕 Currently, he is a Senior Research Fellow in anti-corruption in sports at the University of Brighton. His book ''‘The Fix: Organized Crime and Soccer’'' has appeared in twenty-one languages. Hill was the first person to show the new danger to international sport posed by the globalization of the gambling market and match-fixing at the highest levels of professional football (soccer) including the Champions League and FIFA World Cup tournaments. Part of the book details his involvement with an Asian match-fixing gang as they travelled around the world to fix major football matches. Hill has also published a number of academic articles,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform )〕〔()〕 is a reviewer for ''Global Integrity'' and has probed the impact of the Russian mafia on professional ice hockey. In 2011, he pioneered the first on-line anti-match-fixing education course for Sport Accord that was eventually used by Interpol. In 2013, his second book 'The Insider's Guide to Match-Fixing' was published and immediately translated to Japanese. It is a popular version of his doctoral thesis and was dubbed by its English-language publisher as 'Freakonomics meets Sports Corruption' ==Personal life== Hill is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Trinity College, Toronto and University of Oxford.〔〔()〕 In his spare time, Hill is a keen amateur boxer and leads groups of recreational and competitive fighters to train in Havana, Cuba.〔()〕 On March 31, 2012, Hill won a charity boxing match that was part of the historic Trudeau-Brazeau night – as part of Fight for the Cure in support the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ottawacancer.akaraisin.com/FFTC2012/Hill )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Declan Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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