#  Saara Hassoun 

Global Sports Fellow 2022-23

CEO & Co-Founder, HT Sports 

 

 

 



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 Saara Hassoun holds a Bachelors’ Degree from the University of Southern California in Cognitive Science, and a M.Phil from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School in Innovation, Strategy, and Organization, where her research focused on the successful digitization of primarily in-person events in the entertainment industry. Having grown up in an immigrant household as a lifelong soccer (and Manchester United) fan, she is now the CEO of HT Sports Consulting, a firm that specializes in player wellbeing evaluation and strategy creation, using data-driven insights and player-first methodologies. Saara is passionate about using her academic research to find solutions to advance wellbeing in the soccer space.” Her current research, conducted in tandem with [Nathán Goldberg](/people/nath%C3%A1n-goldberg), consists of interviewing professional women’s soccer players to develop empirically-backed, team-level approaches to athlete wellbeing.



 

 

 





 

 

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