Ignacio Ramonet Miguez (born 5 May 1943) is a Spanish academic, journalist, and writer who has been based in Paris for much of his career.

Ramonet published an editorial in December 1997 in Le Monde diplomatique on the Tobin tax that led to the launching of ATTAC.

He frequently contributes to El País, among other media, and participates in an advisory council to the Venezuelan network Telesur.

In Paris he earned a PhD in Semiology and the History of Culture, at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)- EHESS, one of the French Grande Écoles.

He said reforms under Castro "have proceeded from a popular movement in which the hopes of peasants, workers, and even professionals from the small urban bourgeoisie have converged".

In his December 1997 editorial "Disarming the Markets", Ramonet attributed the Asian economic crisis to globalization, and said that it threatened the identity of national states.