Sara Aagesen, the current Secretary of State for Energy, will replace Teresa Ribera as third vice-president and minister of ecological transition and demographic challenge after being appointed executive vice-president of the new European Commission.
Aegesen is the head of the Secretary of State for Energy since January 2020, being the first woman to hold this position. In the coming weeks he will replace Teresa Ribera, as reported this Friday The Avant-garde.
Chemical engineer from the Complutense University of Madrid, with a specialization in Environment, in 2002 she joined the Climate Change Officewhere he developed a career linked to climate action and energy transition both nationally and internationally.
Among other responsibilities, he was in charge of the sectoral analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and projections, energy scenarios and planning in the different economic sectors, and participated in the design and development of measures and innovative instruments for climate change mitigation. in Spain.
Negotiator of the Spanish delegation to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002, is a member of the Advisory Board of the Climate Technology Center and Network (CTCN), sponsored by the United Nations Environment Organization and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in no longer participate as such. national expert in various working groups of the European Commission and in monitoring and evaluating the evolution of Community regulations.
In 2018, she was named advisor to the cabinet of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, where he was responsible for the orientation, coordination and definition of the draft National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) 2021-2030 and the Long-Term Strategy 2050. Likewise, he participated in the design of policies and measures of the new energy regulatory framework.
In 2013 she received the award Cross of the Civil Order of Environmental Merit, granted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment.
