The Globe and Mail (Canada): Expanding sports betting without banning match-fixing is a recipe for trouble
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, wrote an op-ed on Canada’s Bill C-13 to legalize single-event sports gambling.
Declan Hill, D.Phil.
Division of Government and Public Service, Investigations Program
Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences
Education
D.Phil., Oxford University
B.A, University of Toronto
About Declan
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.
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, was a reviewer for Global Integrity and has probed the impact of the Russian mafia on professional ice hockey in the NHL. In 2011, he pioneered the first on-line anti-match-fixing education course for Sport Accord that was eventually used by Interpol – the International Police Force.
In his spare time, Hill is a keen amateur boxer and martial arts enthusiast. He 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.
Hill speaks four languages – English, French, Spanish and (poor) Italian.
Publications
Declan Hill has written journal articles, book sections and an academic book Insider’s Guide to Match-Fixing in Football to explain the new phenomenon of globalization and match-fixing in professional sports.
Hill’s other academic interests are corruption studies, organized crime and ‘informal governance’ – or the analysis of power structures in societies that are outside formal governments.
Hill is driven by evidence-based work: research methods should fit the topic that is being examined, rather than shaping the topic to use a favourite research method. Therefore, Hill uses both qualitative (interviews, text analysis) and quantitative methods (statistics) in his research.
News and In the Media
Deutschlandfunk: Waiting for the first scandal
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, comments on the dangers of betting fraud and corruption in sports in the United States.
Niagara Falls Review: Loansharking, fake test results and betting on chess: How organized crime has learned to thrive in the COVID-19 pandemic
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, comments on how those addicted to gambling will now bet on anything.
NBC Connecticut: Mixed Results on CT Slot Revenues
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, comments on how the Connecticut casinos and gambling venues are doing during the pandemic.
SVT Sport: Sweden one of the most vulnerable countries for match fixing: 'A nightmare'
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, comments on match fixing in Sweden.
WICC 660AM: Connecticut Today with Paul Pacelli: Crime and Government
Declan Hill, assistant professor of investigations, discusses the impact on sports, gambling and organized crime during the pandemic.
International Business Times: Five Australian 'CS:GO' Players Slapped With Match-Making Charges
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, comments on the recent indictment of players that were losing purposely to win bets.
Radio Influence: Krush Performance: Corruption In Sport – How Deep Does it Really Go?
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, talks about corruption in sports, including launching the new Sports Integrity Graduate Certification.
Fox News: 'Oh, bleep': Sportsbooks scramble for action as they wait for US sports to resume
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, discusses how sportsbooks are searching for their customers to make bets.
ABC.net: In a fix - how match fixing became sport’s biggest threat
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, discusses match fixing on Australian radio.
NewsCaf: Their clubhouses are closed, travel is out and gambling has dried up. How COVID-19 is changing organized crime in the GTA
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, comments on the impact of the coronavirus on sports gambling.
Investigations Professor’s Best-Selling Book Inspires a Television Series
The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime by Declan Hill has been translated into more than 20 languages, and it is now motivation for a scripted drama series being created for the video streaming platform Crackle.
Play the Game: Match-fixing- the global threat to the credibility of sport
Declan Hill, associate professor of criminal justice, will present new research on U.S. sports betting legislation and gambling corruption at the "Play the Game" conference on match fixing.
Play the Game: ’Sometimes we fixed more games than we could bet’
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, met with a former member of a notorious match-fixing gang to discuss game fixing in high-profile sporting events- despite anti-fixing initiatives by the sports industry.
Euro News: Football faces "existential threat" after Infantino gifted second FIFA term
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, comments on the threat posed to soccer as FIFA President Gianni Infantino prepares to take office for a second term, foregoing the re-election process.
CalvinAyre: Becky’s Affiliated: How to squash widespread, international match-fixing with Declan Hill
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, thinks that it is about time that a conversation is started about how to tackle the problem of match-fixing once and for all.
Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport: Sport Leaders and Integrity Experts Unite Against Match Manipulation
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, will be one of the keynote speakers at the 2019 Symposium on Match Manipulation and Gambling in Sport.
CTV News Channel: Opposition Wants Probe into SNC-Lavalin Case
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, shares his thoughts about the SNC-Lavalin case and commenting about the possible case of political corruption within the Canadian government.
GamblingCompliance: Sports Betting Globalization Could Pose Threat to U.S. Amateur Athletes
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, shares his thoughts about a case involving SNC-Lavalin that has been called the "biggest fraud in Canadian history."
Ottawa Citizen: Hill: One legal system for corporations, another for the rest of us?
Declan Hill, an associate professor of investigations, writes about the effects of a changing Canadian legal system.
CBC News Network: Anti-Doping Agency Ends Russian Ban, WADA votes to reinstate Russia after doping scandal
Declan Hill, an associate professor of investigations, talks about the implications of WADA’s decision and the response thus far from the professional sports community.
Goal: Number 12 – Declan Hill: Unveiling corruption can turn African football into the world’s best
Declan Hill, an associate professor of investigations, shares his thoughts on an investigative documentary focused on corruption in African sports.
ABC Grandstand: FIFA’s new code of ethics
Declan Hill, associate professor of investigations, shares his thoughts regarding the new FIFA code of ethics.