Jan Martínez Ahrens
He was born in Paris in 1966 and holds a degree in Philosophy. He later completed a master’s degree in Journalism at UAM–El País. He also holds a PDD from IESE Business School, is a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and studied under Gabriel García Márquez at the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano.
He began his journalism career at Diario 16 and joined El País in 1992, first in the Valencian Community and later in Madrid, where he worked as a crime reporter and section editor. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Editor of the Society desk.
In 2006, he was appointed Deputy Editor of the Sunday edition and later of General News, and in early 2017 he was named Chief Correspondent in the United States.
From June 2018, he served as Deputy Director in Madrid, and in October 2020 he was appointed Director of El País in the Americas, a position he held until June 4, when he was named Director of the newspaper.