José Ignacio Torreblanca
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| Born | 1968  |
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| Occupation | Political analyst, journalist |
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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 from 2016 to 2018.
Born in 1968 in Madrid,[1][2] he earned a PhD in political science at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is full professor of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).[3] He has been a researcher for the Elcano Royal Institute.
Torreblanca became a regular columnist for El País in 2008.[4] A noted europeanist,[5] he also was the director of the Madrid office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) think tank.[1] In June 2016, he became the director of opinion of El País.[6]
After Soledad Gallego-Díaz 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.[3][6]
