Teresa Ribera

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Full Name	Teresa Ribera
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 19, 1969(1969-05-19)
Age	55
Birthplace	Madrid
Country	Spain
Horoscope	Taurus

Teresa Ribera Biography

Teresa Ribera is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 19, 1969 in Madrid, Spain. Teresa Ribera Rodriguez (born 19 May 1969) is an Spanish lawyer, university professor also a politician. She has been the Minister of the Ecological Transition of Spain since the year 2020. Premier Pedro Sanchez brought her into his second cabinet, following being elected in 2018 following the success of the no- confidence motion that was filed against Mariano Rajoy.

Ribera she is also part of several advisory committees, which include her position on the Global Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN) and an advisory committee on global climate changes of the World Economic Forum, and the Momentum For Change initiative of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); is part of the international body of BC3 and to members of the council advisory of Institut pour la Recherche du Developpement (IRD) as well as the patronage from Fundipax as well as Fundacion Alternativas. She joined the IRD in September 2013. started working in the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), located in Paris and in June 2014, she assumed the organization’s direction. The institute is committed to the study of strategic issues that relate to sustainable development and climate change, as well as the protection of biodiversity food security, and managing the urbanization process.

In June 2018, it was announced that she would be the Minister for the Ecological Transition of the Sánchez government, 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, Sánchez 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. On 7 June she took office as Minister before the King at Palace of Zarzuela.

The first measures that she 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. In an effort to end coal pollution and to transform the power production of Spain, Ribera reached an agreement with unions to close most of the coal mines that still survived in the north of the country by making an investment of €250 million to avoid a fall in the miners’ standard of living and to restore the environmental balance of the area. In October 2018, she was awarded the Climate Reality Project Award in the category of ‘Public Personality’ granted by the Climate Reality Project.

Ribera has graduated from Complutense University of Madrid with the degree of legal studies and additional study with the Center for Constitutional Studies attaining her second degree in political science and constitutional law. She is a member of the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the State, and she is a surplus official since 2012. Ribera was an associate professor in at the Department of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Teresa Ribera Net Worth

Teresa Ribera is one of the richest Politician from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Teresa Ribera 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She has held a variety of posts in the public administration that involved technical aspects like the position in the position of Director of Coordination of the Ministry of Development and of Technical Advisor in the Cabinet of the Assistant Secretary for the Environment and the Head of the Compliance and Development department. In 2004-2008,, she was the general director of Office of Climate Change and between 2008 and 2011, she became Secretary of State position for Climate Change (in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment) during the presidency of President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

In the years 2008-2011,, she was Secretary of State to Climate Change in the second administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Between 2014 and 2018, she served as Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations located in Paris.

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 in 2008, she occupied the State Secretariat of Climate Change and was the person who signed the environmental impact assessment by which the project was authorized. In 2015, 18 people were charged from the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain and the General Directorate of Quality and Environmental Evaluation. However, they held posts of a technical nature and no politicians were charged, including Ribera. In 2015, she joined Pedro Sánchez’s expert panel to prepare the Socialist Party’s electoral program.

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Who is Teresa Ribera Dating?

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Teresa Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Teresa Ribera celebrates birthday on May 19 of every year.