Third Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge
Sara Aagesen Muñoz
The Third Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, walks through the gardens of the Moncloa Palace | Pool Moncloa /Borja Puig de la Bellacasa. 2024.11.28
Academic background
- Chemical engineer, specialising in the environment. Complutense University of Madrid (2001).
Political and professional career
- Third Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (November 2024-present)
- Secretary of State for Energy (January 2020-November 2024).
- Advisor to the Cabinet of the Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (2018-2020).
- Negotiator for the Spanish delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (since 2002).
- She has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), as well as participating as a national expert in various working groups of the European Commission and in the monitoring and evaluation of EU policy development.
- She has held various responsibilities as a member of the Climate Change Office (2002-2018).
Honours
- Awarded the Cross of the Civil Order of Environmental Merit (2013).
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