Barney Jopson
Spain & Portugal correspondent
Barney Jopson is the FT’s Spain & Portugal correspondent based in Madrid. In a 20-year career at the FT he has also been executive news editor in London and worked as a foreign correspondent in Washington, New York, Nairobi and Tokyo. He began his journalism career writing in Japanese at Nikkei in 2002.
Barney has been named as best foreign correspondent in Spain by the International Press Club and won the Leonor de Castilla prize from the Fundación Hispano Británica. His reporting has also been recognised with a SABEW Best in Business award in the US, a prize from the Society of Publishers in Asia and the Wincott Foundation’s young financial journalist of the year award in the UK. Barney graduated from Cambridge university with a double first in geography and speaks Spanish and French as well as Japanese.
