Raphael Minder  Raphael Minder (born 1971 in Geneva) is a Swiss journalist. Based in Madrid, he is the Spain and Portugal correspondent for "The New York Times". Prior to this, he worked for a decade at "The Financial Times" as staff correspondent in Paris, Brussels and Sydney, as well as in Hong Kong as its Asia regional correspondent. Minder started his career as a journalist with Bloomberg News in 1993. Minder is the author of "The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain" (Hurst), "an insightful and timely account of the faultlines in Spanish politics," which was published in September 2017, just as Spain’s territorial crisis boiled over. An adaption of the book, "Catalogne : Urnes et déchirures" (Éditions Nevicata), was published in French in 2019. Raphael Minder studied at Harrow School, where he won an academic scholarship. He graduated in 1992 with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. In 2002, he was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he obtained a Master's in Journalism. 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. Article archive at The New York Times