José Ignacio Torreblanca Payá (born 1968) is a Spanish political analyst and political scientist. Working as opinion writer for ''El Mundo'' since 2018, he was the op-ed editor of ''

El País (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ...

'' from 2016 to 2018.

Biography

Born in 1968 in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, he earned a PhD in political science at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

(UCM). He is full professor of the

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia The National Distance Education University (, UNED) is a distance learning and research university founded in 1972 and is the only university run by the government of Spain. The headquarters is located in Madrid, with campuses in all Spanish ...

(UNED). He has been a researcher for the

Elcano Royal Institute The Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos''; RIE) is a think tank based in Madrid, Spain. It was created on 26 November 2001 a ...

. Torreblanca became a regular columnist for ''El País'' in 2008. A noted europeanist, he also was the director of the Madrid office of the

European Council on Foreign Relations The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan-European think tank with offices in seven European capitals. Launched in October 2007, it conducts research on European foreign and security policy and provides a meeting space for decis ...

(ECFR) ''think tank''. In June 2016, he became the director of opinion of ''El País''. After

Soledad Gallego-Díaz Soledad Gallego-Díaz (born 1951) is a Spanish journalist, and was the editor of Spanish newspaper ''El País'' from June 2018 to June 2020. Biography Born in Madrid in 1951, she lived for a year in Palo Alto and another year in Nashville whe ...

became the new editor-in-chief of ''El País'' in June 2018, Torreblanca left the newspaper and was replaced as op-ed editor by Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán. Torreblanca subsequently joined '' El Mundo'' as opinion writer in September 2018.

Awards

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Works

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References

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