Teresa Ribera

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Teresa Ribera Rodríguez, 2018

Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (born May 19, 1969 in Madrid ) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE). On June 7, 2018, she was appointed Minister for Ecological Change ( Ministra para la Transición Ecológica ) in the government of Pedro Sánchez . In the Sánchez II cabinet (from January 2020) she will continue to hold this office and was also appointed one of the four deputies of the Prime Minister ( vicepresidenta ).

Ribera studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained a diploma in constitutional law and political science from the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales . She then became Associate Professor at the Institute for Public Law and Legal Philosophy ( Departamento de Derecho Público y Filosofía del Derecho ) of the Autonomous University of Madrid . One of her tasks in the public administration was the position of head of the normative coordination service of the Ministry of Development. She then worked as a consultant in the cabinet of the Deputy Secretary for the Environment and as Head of Compliance and Development. From 2004 and 2008 she was Director General of the Office for Climate Change . From 2008 to 2011, in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, State Secretary for Climate Change was in the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment. She has been a member of the PSOE since 2011.

In June 2018, she became Environment Minister in the first Sánchez cabinet. In this office, she was responsible for realigning Spanish energy policy and advocated more ambitious targets for the share of renewable energies within the EU. and, alongside Sánchez and Madrid's mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, she was jointly responsible for ensuring that the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference took place in the Spanish capital after Chile's cancellation in December 2019. In April and November 2019 she was elected to the Spanish Parliament as a member of the Madrid Province . In the Sánchez II cabinet, which was presented in January 2020, she is one of four deputies to the Prime Minister and Minister for Ecological Change and Demography ( vicepresidenta para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV. (pdf) 2009 (Spanish).;
  2. ↑ Manuel Planelles: Teresa Ribera y la lucha contra el cambio climático. In: El País. June 7, 2018, accessed January 14, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ a b Todos los ministros del nuevo Gobierno progresista. In: eldiario.es. January 9, 2020, accessed January 14, 2020 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Antonio Cerrillo: Teresa Ribera, el ascenso de la agenda ecológica. In: La Vanguardia . January 9, 2020, accessed January 14, 2020 (Spanish).

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SURNAME Ribera, Teresa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ribera Rodríguez, Teresa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid