Teresa Ribera
| The Most Excellent Teresa Ribera | |
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| Minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2018 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by |
Isabel García (Environment) Álvaro Nadal (Energy) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Teresa Ribera Rodríguez May 19, 1969 Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Worker's Party |
| Alma mater |
Complutense University of Madrid Center for Constitutional Studies. |
| Occupation | Jurist, lawyer, politician and academic |
Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (born 19 May 1969 in Madrid), is a Spanish jurist, university professor and Spanish politician, current Minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain. She serves in the Sánchez government which came to power in 2018 after the approval of the motion of no-confidence in the Rajoy government.
Between 2008 and 2011 she held the position of Secretary of State for Climate Change in the second administration of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. From June 2014, she was director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, based in Paris.
Biography and political career
Graduated in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and diploma in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Center for Constitutional Studies. She belongs to the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the State of which she has been a surplus official since 2012 and has been an associate professor of the Department of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid[1].
She has held various technical positions in public administration, such as the position of Chief of Coordination of the Ministry of Development and of Technical Adviser in the Cabinet of the Assistant Secretary for the Environment and Head of the Compliance and Development area. Between 2004 and 2008 she was general director of the Office of Climate Change and between 2008 and 2011 she assumed the Secretary of State for Climate Change (in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment) during the government of President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero[2].
Ribera is also a member of several advisory councils, including the Global Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN), the global climate change advisory council of the World Economic Forum, and the Momentum For Change initiative of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); belongs to the international council of the BC3, to the advisory council of the Institut pour la Recherche du Développement (IRD) and to the patronages of Fundipax and Fundación Alternativas.
In September 2013, she began to collaborate with the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), based in Paris, and in June 2014 she assumed its direction. The organization is dedicated to the analysis of strategic issues related to sustainable development, climate change, protection of biodiversity, food security and management of the urbanization process[3]
In May 2014, the prosecutor's office denounced the development of a gas storage site, called Project Castor, which was halted because of seismic activity. Environmental prevaricación was alleged, and one of the accusations was directed against Teresa Ribera, because when the project was approved by the Government, she occupied the State Secretariat of Climate Change and was the person who signed the environmental impact assessment by which the project was authorized[4][5]. In 2015, 18 persons were charged from the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME) and the General Directorate of Quality and Environmental Evaluation - they held posts of a technical nature and no politicians were charged: former Secretary of State Teresa Ribera was not called.[6]
In 2015, she joined Pedro Sánchez's team of experts to prepare the PSOE's electoral program[7]. In June 2018, it was announced that she would be the Minister of Energy Transition and Environment of the Pedro Sánchez government[8], following the motion of censure that the PSOE presented against the previous government of Mariano Rajoy (PP) and that was approved by the Congress of Deputies. On 1 June 2018, appointed her as Minister in new Spanish government. Felipe VI sanctioned by royal decree of June her appointment as holder of the portfolio of Minister for the Ecological Transition[9]. On 7 June she took office as Minister before the King at Palace of Zarzuela[10]
References
- ↑ CV Teresa Ribera (in Spanish)
- ↑ REAL DECRETO 573/2008, de 21 de abril, por el que se nombra Secretaria de Estado de Cambio Climático a doña Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (in Spanish)
- ↑ Instituto de Desarrollo Sostenible y Relaciones Internacionales (in Spanish)
- ↑ La fiscalía denunciará el proyecto Castor por prevaricación ambiental (in Spanish)
- ↑ La “chica con glamour” de ZP, investigada por prevaricación en la Plataforma Castor (in Spanish)
- ↑ Efecto Castor: los técnicos apenas firman ya declaraciones de impacto ambiental (in Spanish)
- ↑ Pedro Sánchez también ficha a Victoria Camps y Teresa Ribera (in Spanish)
- ↑ Teresa Ribera acepta ser ministra de Transición Energética y Medio Ambiente (in Spanish)
- ↑ Real Decreto 357/2018, de 6 de junio, por el que se nombran Ministros del Gobierno (in Spanish)
- ↑ Los 17 del "Consejo de Ministras y Ministros" de Sánchez prometen ante el Rey (in Spanish)