Jordi Pérez Colomé

With degrees in Journalism and Italian Philology, and a master’s degree in International Relations, he is an expert in international politics and technology. He was director of the cultural review El Ciervo and has taught at several universities, among them the University of Barcelona and the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). In 2008, he started the blog Obamaworld, with which he organised the first crowdfunding in Spain for journalistic coverage of the Arab Spring revolts. Author of six books, he has received the 2012 José Manuel Porquet Award for Digital Journalism and the 2014 Letras Enredadas (Tangled Letters) Prize. He is presently a reporter for the daily El País where he writes about technology as well as teaching at the Carlos III University of Madrid.