Raúl Sánchez

Raúl Sánchez was selected for the 2025 Shortlist with Segregated by the Wheel of Inequality in Spain: How Impoverished Neighbourhoods Become Hotspots for the Lower Educated.

Raúl Sánchez is head of the Data team at elDiario.es (Spain), where he has worked for over ten years. He specializes in reporting on inequality, taxation, migration, agriculture, the labor market, elections, and public health, using data analysis as a key tool. He has contributed to investigations such as Castellana Papers, on tax avoidance among Spain’s wealthiest families; Enslaved Land, on labor exploitation in industrial agriculture; Spain lives in flats, mapping the height of more than 12 million buildings; Giving Birth with a Scalpel, uncovering striking disparities in C-section rates across over 300 hospitals in Spain; Spain at flood-risk, identifying nearly two million homes in flood-prone areas; and The Wheel of Inequality, an investigation into the mechanisms that perpetuate poverty and limit opportunities for families with fewer resources. The work of the elDiario.es data team has been cited by national and international media and is considered a reference in data-driven reporting in Spain. Since 2015, he has focused on telling stories through data at elDiario.es.