Javier Veramendi has a law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, having practiced as a self-employed lawyer for two decades in both civil and criminal law.
He is also a historian, an activity to which he has devoted much of his life, first as a columnist in various media and then through the podcast Histocast, a project whose founding team was soon to be fifteen seasons and which exceeds three million downloads per year. In 2014 he began to devote himself fully to history as head editor at the Desperta Ferro publishing house. First at the head of the journal of Modern History and later in Contemporary, of which he has already managed more than fifty issues. He is a specialist in polemology, more specifically in the period beginning with the American Civil War and ending with the great world conflicts of the mid-twentieth century.
He is also a member of the Ateneo de Torrelodones and the Asociación de Scouts y Gúias Adultos de Madrid, has been a trainer of educators in the project Ideas Educativas, of which he was co-founder, speaks fluent French and English with a terrible accent, is a fan of American soccer and when he has some time left he likes board games and going for walks.
