Instituto Meridiano

Team

The people behind Meridiano

Research, editing, journalism and political organising for a fast and just ecological transition.

Xan López

Xan López

Head of economic analysis and new technologies

Specialist in political economy and digital technologies, and a member of the technology consultancy Igalia. Co-founder and co-editor of the magazine Corriente Cálida and co-founder of the climate collective Contra el diluvio.

His research at Meridiano focuses on the economics of the ecological transition, international politics and new technologies. He is the author of El fin de la paciencia. Un ensayo sobre política climática (Anagrama, 2025) and has written for El País, elDiario and Público, among others. He also writes occasionally in his newsletter, Amalgama.

Publications and appearances

May 2026

Report · Del shock fósil a la soberanía energética

Instituto Meridiano · with José Luis Rodríguez

Nov 2025

Hegemonía eléctrica

Amalgama

Nov 2024

Donald Trump en Paiporta

El País

Oct 2024

¿Amarga victoria o dulce derrota del Green New Deal? Reflexiones desde el caso español

Corriente Cálida · with Emilio Santiago and Héctor Tejero

José Luis Rodríguez

José Luis Rodríguez

Head of organisation and institutional relations

Co-founder and co-editor of the magazine Corriente Cálida. He has taken part in several schools on political ecology and climate politics, covering topics such as class politics and new forms of the state in the face of the climate crisis.

His research at Meridiano focuses on institutional innovation, the far right’s response to the climate crisis and China’s role in the global ecological transition. He has written for El País, Público, laU and Climática. He also coordinates the institute and manages Meridiano’s relations with other institutions and with political and civil society organisations.

Emilio Santiago

Emilio Santiago

Head of social science research and academic relations

PhD in Anthropology and tenured scientist at CSIC, the Spanish National Research Council, in a research post in climate anthropology. Eco-social activist and founder of the transition institute Rompe el Círculo. He has taught at the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Zaragoza and the Independent Studies Programme of MACBA in Barcelona.

From 2016 to 2019 he was technical director for the environment at Móstoles City Council, and in 2020 a parliamentary adviser to Más Madrid in the Madrid Assembly. He has written widely on the ecological crisis and transition, including Contra el mito del colapso ecológico (Arpa, 2023) and, with Héctor Tejero, España contra el desierto (Arpa, 2026).

Marta Montojo

Marta Montojo

Head of communications and public relations

Freelance journalist specialising in the environment and climate change. Since 2026 she has led communications and public relations at Meridiano. She also coordinates the magazine Ballena Blanca and writes regularly for La Vanguardia and Climática.

She studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid and over the past decade has worked at the EFE news agency, the newspaper La Vanguardia and the investigative journalism organisation The Outlaw Ocean Project. As an independent journalist she has also published in other Spanish outlets such as ElDiario.es, El Confidencial and El Orden Mundial, and internationally in The Guardian, Green European Journal, China Dialogue, Irpi and Taz, among others.

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