Pilar Cancela Rodríguez (born August 21, 1967) is a Spanish politician who has been serving as secretary of state for migration since 2023. Previously, she served as secretary of state for international cooperation from 2021 to 2023.
Since 2017, Cancela Rodríguez has been Secretary of the PSOE's Migration and Foreign Policies area in the Federal Executive Committee. She has been member of the Congress of Deputies during the XI, XII, XIII and XIV legislatures. From September 2016 to July 2021, she chaired the Congress of Deputies' Equality Committee.
Career Cancela Rodríguez was secretary of Organization of the PSdeG.
Member of Parliament In December 2015, Cancela Rodríguez was elected deputy for La Coruña in Congress, being reelected in 2016. In September of that same year she was elected President of the Equality Commission of the Congress.
In June 2017, Cancela Rodríguez was elected secretary of the area of Migration Policies and PSOE del Exterior in the executive of Pedro Sánchez.
In her work in Congress, Cancela Rodríguez chaired the Subcommittee created within the Equality Commission for the elaboration of the State Pact on Gender Violence, approved on September 28, 2017, in the Plenary. In July 2021, she left the presidency of the Equality Commission, being replaced on September 30, 2021, by Carmen Calvo.
Career in government On July 21, 2021, Cancela Rodríguez was appointed Secretary of State for International Cooperation.
In 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Cancela Rodríguez to co-chair his Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments, alongside Fatimatou Abdel Malick.Local and Regional Engagement, Action and Multi-Level Cooperation Are Vital to Rescue SDGs and Contribute to Topics under the Summit of Future United Nations, press release of 6 October 2023.
In December 2023, Cancela was appointed Secretary of State for Migration.
Other activities Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Member of the Board of TrusteesGovernance Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
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