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Teresa Ribera | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| First Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition | |
| Assumed office 1 December 2024 | |
| President | Ursula von der Leyen |
| Preceded by | Maroš Šefčovič |
| European Commissioner for Competitiveness | |
| Assumed office 1 December 2024 | |
| President | Ursula von der Leyen |
| Preceded by | Margrethe Vestager |
| Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain | |
| In office 12 July 2021 – 25 November 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Yolanda Díaz |
| Succeeded by | Sara Aagesen |
| Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge | |
| In office 7 June 2018 – 25 November 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Isabel García Tejerina (environment) Álvaro Nadal (energy) |
| Succeeded by | Sara Aagesen |
| Fourth Deputy Prime Minister of Spain | |
| In office 13 January 2020 – 12 July 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | María Jesús Montero |
| 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 |
| Secretary of State for Climate Change | |
| In office 22 April 2008 – 30 December 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Director of the Spanish Office of Climate Change | |
| In office 11 February 2005 – 22 April 2008 | |
| Prime Minister | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Teresa Ribera Rodríguez May 19, 1969 Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Worker's Party (2011–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (until 2011) |
| Spouse | Mariano Bacigalupo |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
| Occupation | Jurist • Lawyer • Professor • Politician |
Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (pronounced [teˈɾesa riˈβeɾa]; born 19 May 1969) is a Spanish jurist, adjunct professor, and politician who is the First Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition and Commissioner for Competitiveness under the second Von der Leyen Commission. She previously served as the minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain since 2018, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez came into power following the successful no-confidence motion against Mariano Rajoy. In 2020, she was appointed as 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.