Irene de la Torre is a digital designer in the visual storytelling team, an interdisciplinary group of journalists combining reporting, data, design and coding skills.
The team won a Press Gazette Future of Media award in 2023 for an investigation into North Korean oil smuggling and in 2022 for their coverage of the Ukraine war. They have also won multiple awards for the Climate Game.
Before joining the FT in October 2022, Irene was a visualisation lead at UCB Biopharma. She has also worked as a data designer in the Visual Journalism team at BBC News and as a data visualisation specialist at the MIT SENSEable City Lab.
In 2020, the project 'How Much Warmer is your city', done at BBC News, was recognised as Best Data Visualisation at the WAN-IFRA European Digital Media Award.