Organizing Committee

PLÁCIDO RODRÍGUEZ GUERRERO 

Professor of Economics. Departament of Economics, Oviedo University. Co-editor of the books:

• Sports Economics after Fifty Years: Essays in Honour of Simon Rotternber,
• Governance and Competition in Profesional Sports Leagues,
• Threats to Sports and Sports Participation and Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Sports.

He was president of Real Sporting de Gijón Football Club and the current Director of the Sports Economics Observatory Foundation.

STEFAN KÉSENNE

Professor of Economics. Universiteit Antwerpen and K. U. Leuven. Editor with C. Jeanrenuaud of the books

• Competition Policy in Professional Sports, and
• The Economics of Sport and the Media.

He has published numerous articles in

• European Economic Review,
• Journal of Industrial Economics,
• Scottish Journal of Political Economy,
• Journal of Sports Economics,
• European Sport Management Quarterly...

Author of the book The Economic Theory of Professional Team Sport. An Analytical Treatment.

BRAD HUMPHREYS

Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta (Canada), where he holds the Chair in the Economics of Gaming. He belongs to serveral editorial boards and has published articles in the:

• Southern Economic Journal,
• Applied Economics, J
• ournal of Sport Management,
• Journal of Sports Economics or
• Contemporary Economic Policy.

He is the current president of the North American Sports Economists Association.