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Barney Jopson is the FT’s Spain & Portugal correspondent based in Madrid. In a 20-year career at the FT he has previously been Executive News Editor in London and worked as a correspondent in Washington, New York, Nairobi and Tokyo. He began his journalism career writing in Japanese at Nikkei in 2002.
Barney's work has been recognised with prizes including the Wincott Foundation’s young financial journalist of the year award. He has also won a Society of Publishers in Asia prize and a SABEW Best in Business award in the US. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and speaks Spanish and French as well as Japanese.