David Jiménez Torres (Madrid, 1986) has a doctorate in Hispanic Studies from the University of Cambridge. He has been a professor at universities in the United Kingdom and Spain and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is the author of the novels Salter School (2007) and Cambridge in the Middle of the Night (2018) and the essays The Country of Fog (2018) and 2017. The crisis that changed Spain (2021). He has also published the monograph Our Man in London. Ramiro de Maeztu and Anglo-Spanish relations (2020) and coordinated the collective book The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere (2019). He has collaborated in various media and is currently a columnist for the newspaper El Mundo.