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Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
About Ramiro Villapadierna
- Ramiro Villapadierna (Madrid, Spain, 1964) is a reporter and observer working on Centreuropean affaires and culture, and a former war correspondent. He's now been engaged by the Instituto Cervantes, the global pan-Hispanic institution dedicated to culture diplomacy.
- For it he has headed its Frankfurt and Prague branches, and has presided over their EUNIC, the European Network of Institutes of Culture, local clusters. He's been a long time Berlin, Vienna and Prague based writer and commentator, on Central Europe transitions and contemporary culture, with several international media and political institutes.
- As a known flying correspondent, he has been rewarded at the Salvador de Madariaga European Journalism Prize, at the Cirilo Rodrigo Foreign Correspondence Award and the Larra Prize. He's contributed to several international media, including the DPA, after a long spell as a Central Europe Bureau Head for the Spanish national daily ABC.
- For it he was posted to Prague, Vienna, the Balkans and Berlin and travelled over two decades the Central and Eastern regions.
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