13 Facts About Teresa Ribera

Teresa Ribera previously served as the minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain since 2018, after Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez came into power following the successful no-confidence motion against Mariano Rajoy.

Between 2008 and 2011 Ribera held the position of Secretary of State for Climate Change in the second administration of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Teresa Ribera graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid with a degree in legal studies, with further studies at the Center for Constitutional Studies attaining her another degree in constitutional law and political science.

Teresa Ribera belongs to the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the State of which she has been a surplus official since 2012.

Teresa Ribera has been an adjunct professor of the Department of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Teresa Ribera 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.

In June 2018, it was announced that Teresa Ribera would be the Minister for the Ecological Transition of the Sanchez government, following the motion of censure that the PSOE presented against the previous government of Mariano Rajoy and that was approved by the Congress of Deputies.

The first measures that Teresa Ribera carried out as minister was to end the so-called "sun tax" to allow the free production of power in an effort to increase ecological power and to reduce the price of electricity.

On 13 January 2020, Teresa Ribera assumed the office of Fourth Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge before the King in Zarzuela Palace in the Sanchez second cabinet.

Teresa Ribera then called for a "Green New Deal" for Spain to both further environmentalism and help the country get out of the national lockdown.

On 15 December 2020, Teresa Ribera was one of the first European ministers to declare that if it was not possible to make the Energy Charter Treaty compatible with the Paris Agreement, there would be no choice but to withdraw from it.

In July 2021, after the resignation of Second DPM Pablo Iglesias, Teresa Ribera's post was suppressed and she was appointed Third Deputy Prime Minister.

Teresa Ribera expressed support for the European Green Deal and the green transition.