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Pilar Cancela Rodríguez
Pilar Cancela Rodríguez
Secretary of State for Migration
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; December 6, 2023
Preceded by	Isabel Castro Fernández
Secretary of State for International Cooperation
	In office; July 21, 2021 – December 6, 2023
Preceded by	Ángeles Moreno Bau
Succeeded by	Eva Granados
Member of the Congress of Deputies; for A Coruña
	In office; January 5, 2016 – July 27, 2021
Personal details
Born	August 21, 1967 (age 58); Stuttgart, Germany
Party	PSOE; PSdeG–PSOE
Education	University of Santiago de Compostela
Occupation	Politician

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.^[1]

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.^[2] From September 2016 to July 2021, she chaired the Congress of Deputies' Equality Committee.^[3]

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.^[4]

In June 2017, Cancela Rodríguez was elected secretary of the area of Migration Policies and PSOE del Exterior in the executive of Pedro Sánchez.^[5]

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.^[6] In July 2021, she left the presidency of the Equality Commission, being replaced on September 30, 2021, by Carmen Calvo.^[3]

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.^[7]

In December 2023, Cancela was appointed Secretary of State for Migration.^[8]

Other activities

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Member of the Board of Trustees^[9]

References

↑ "Ángeles Moreno, Juan Fernández y Pilar Cancela, al frente de las nuevas Secretarías de Estado de Exteriores". Europa Press. 2021-07-20. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
↑ "XIV Legislatura (2019-Actualidad). Cancela Rodríguez, Pilar". congreso.es. Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
1 2 "Ábalos y Calvo ya presiden comisiones parlamentarias tras su salida del Gobierno". ElHuffPost (in Spanish). 2021-09-30. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
↑ "Comisión de Igualdad del Congreso: tres hombres frente a 34 mujeres". Europa Press. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
↑ "La gallega Pilar Cancela Rodríguez ha sido elegida nueva secretaria de Área de Políticas Migratorias y PSOE del Exterior – DLM". eldiariodelamarina.com. 2017-09-10. Archived from the original on 2017-09-10. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
↑ "Diario de Sesiones del Congreso. Pleno y Diputación Permanente. DSCD-12-PL-79" (PDF). congreso.es (in Spanish).
↑ Local and Regional Engagement, Action and Multi-Level Cooperation Are Vital to Rescue SDGs and Contribute to Topics under the Summit of Future Archived 2025-05-30 at the Wayback Machine United Nations, press release of 6 October 2023.
↑ "Pilar Cancela será la nueva secretaria de Estado de Migraciones". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2023-12-02. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
↑ Governance Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

[1] "Ángeles Moreno, Juan Fernández y Pilar Cancela, al frente de las nuevas Secretarías de Estado de Exteriores". Europa Press. 2021-07-20. Retrieved 2023-10-07.

[2] "XIV Legislatura (2019-Actualidad). Cancela Rodríguez, Pilar". congreso.es. Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2023-10-10.

[:0-3] 1 2 "Ábalos y Calvo ya presiden comisiones parlamentarias tras su salida del Gobierno". ElHuffPost (in Spanish). 2021-09-30. Retrieved 2023-10-07.

[4] "Comisión de Igualdad del Congreso: tres hombres frente a 34 mujeres". Europa Press. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2023-10-07.

[5] "La gallega Pilar Cancela Rodríguez ha sido elegida nueva secretaria de Área de Políticas Migratorias y PSOE del Exterior – DLM". eldiariodelamarina.com. 2017-09-10. Archived from the original on 2017-09-10. Retrieved 2023-10-07.

[6] "Diario de Sesiones del Congreso. Pleno y Diputación Permanente. DSCD-12-PL-79" (PDF). congreso.es (in Spanish).

[7] Local and Regional Engagement, Action and Multi-Level Cooperation Are Vital to Rescue SDGs and Contribute to Topics under the Summit of Future Archived 2025-05-30 at the Wayback Machine United Nations, press release of 6 October 2023.

[8] "Pilar Cancela será la nueva secretaria de Estado de Migraciones". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2023-12-02. Retrieved 2026-03-23.

[9] Governance Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

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