Director of CincoDías.

Ricardo de Querol has been appointed editor-in-chief of CincoDías and deputy editor-in-chief of the economics section of El País. The change comes as part of the reorganization of the team under the new editor-in-chief of El País, Jan Martínez Ahrens, and aims to further strengthen the largest offering of economic information in Spain and Latin America.

Until now, Querol had been deputy editor-in-chief of the print edition of El País, a position he had held since 2019. He will return to the management of Spain’s leading economic newspaper, a position he held between 2016 and 2018.

Ricardo de Querol Alcaraz (Madrid, 56) has a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. He began his career in 1988 reporting local news for the newspaper Ya and worked for more than ten years for Diario 16, where he was head of the Economy and National sections. In 1997 and 1998, he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tribuna de Salamanca, and then rejoined Diario 16 as closing editor and later editor-in-chief.

In 2002, he joined CincoDías, where he was editor-in-chief and deputy director. In 2006, he joined El País, where he has been editor-in-chief of Society, the Digital Desk, and the cultural supplement Babelia.

During his previous stint as editor of CincoDías, he carried out a thorough overhaul of the newspaper’s design and content and was responsible for the launch of El País Retina, a digital space and, at the time, a monthly magazine published by El País on digital transformation.

In January 2019, he was appointed deputy editor of El País, in charge of the print edition. He has also been a columnist for the newspaper, a cultural critic, and the author of the essay La gran fragmentación (Arpa).