Third Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge

Teresa Ribera Rodríguez

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Born in Madrid in 1969.

Academic background

  • Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (1992)
  • Diploma in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Centre for Constitutional Studies (1993)

Political and professional career

  • Third Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (July 2021-present)
  • Fourth Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (January 2020-July 2021)
  • Minister for Ecological Transition (2018-2020)
  • Member for Madrid in the Lower House of Parliament (2019-present).
  • Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) (2014-2018)
  • Advisor to the Energy and Climate programme at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris (2013-2014).
  • Secretary of State for Climate Change (2008-2011)
  • Director General of the Spanish Climate Change Office (2004-2008)
  • Various posts in the Ministries of Public Works, Transport and Environment (1996-2004).
  • President of the Advisory Board of the UN Climate Change Secretariat's Momentum for Change Initiative
  • Member of the Global Climate Advisory Council of the World Economic Forum and of the Global Leadership Council of the Spanish Sustainable Development Network (SDSN).
  • Associate professor in the Department of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

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