Victoria Martín de la Torre is a Spanish journalist working as a press officer for the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament since 2008. Before arriving in Brussels, she worked as a reporter at the weekly magazine Tiempo for over a decade, covering EU-Arab World relations. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1998 and she got a MS degree at Columbia University School of Journalism (New York) in 1999. In 2003, she specialized in EU Foreign Policy at the College of Europe (Bruges). She is the author of two books: “Viaje a la ciudad de Belén. Cuna del amor, semilla de intifada” (A trip to Bethlehem, cradle of love, seed of intifada) published in 2008 and “Europe, a Leap into the Unknown”, published in 2014. She is also the founder and president of the Abraham Forum for Inter-Religious and Intercultural Dialogue in Madrid, which was launched in 2009.