Raphael Minder

The book was published in 2021 in English as Feeling the Heat: A Decade as a Foreign Correspondent in Spain (Sussex Academic Press).

In his preface to Minder's book, the historian Sir Paul Preston wrote: “This is a highly recommendable portrait of a nation facing its greatest period of political upheaval since the death of Franco and the transition to democracy.

He is the great-grandson of Joseph Szigeti, a Hungarian violin virtuoso, and the grandson of Nikita Magaloff, a Russian-born concert pianist.

He graduated in 1992 with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

In 2018, he completed the IESE Business School Executive Program for Leadership Development and received a Logan Nonfiction Fellowship at the Carey Institute for Global Good.