Teresa Ribera

The Most Excellent Teresa Ribera
Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 July 2021 Serving with Nadia Calviño, María Jesús Montero and Yolanda Díaz
Monarch	Felipe VI
Prime Minister	Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by	Yolanda Díaz
Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 January 2020
Prime Minister	Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by	Herself
Fourth Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
In office 13 January 2020 – 12 July 2021 Serving with Carmen Calvo, Nadia Calviño and Yolanda Díaz
Monarch	Felipe VI
Prime Minister	Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	María Jesús Montero
Minister for the Ecological Transition
In office 7 June 2018 – 13 January 2020
Prime Minister	Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by	Isabel García Tejerina Álvaro Nadal
Succeeded by	Herself
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 17 August 2023 – 1 December 2023
Constituency	Madrid
In office 21 May 2019 – 21 February 2020
Constituency	Madrid
Personal details
Born	Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (1969-05-19) May 19, 1969 (age 54) Madrid, Francoist Spain
Political party	Spanish Socialist Worker's Party
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid
Occupation	Jurist, lawyer, and politician

Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (pronounced [teˈɾesa riˈβeɾa]; born 19 May 1969) is a Spanish jurist, university professor, and politician who has served as the Minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain since 2018, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez coming into power following the successful no-confidence motion against Mariano Rajoy. In 2020, she was appointed Fourth Deputy Prime Minister and in 2021 she was promoted to Third Deputy Prime Minister.

Between 2008 and 2011 Ribera held the position of Secretary of State for Climate Change in the second administration of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Between 2014 and 2018, she was director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, based in Paris.