VIII Employment Congress

Pilar Cancela

Secretary of State for Migration.

Born in Stuttgart (Germany).

Graduate in law from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Qualified in Occupational Risk Prevention.

Mediator/Arbitrator in out-of-court solutions to labour disputes.

She speaks Galician and has an intermediate level of English.

Member of the senior corps of the civil servants in the general administration of the government of Galicia since 1993.

General Secretary of the Galician Labour Relations Council (2002-2003).

Director-General of Labour Relations at the government of Galicia (2002-2003, 2005-2009).

Member of the Spanish parliament (2015-2021).

Chair of the Parliamentary Equality Commission (2016-2021).

Chair of the Commission on the State Compact on Gender Violence.

Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (2021-2023).

President of the Spanish International Cooperation and Development Agency (2021-2023).

Chair of the advisory group to the UN General Secretary on localisation of the 2020 Agenda SDGs.

She has spoken at numerous conferences, seminars and symposia about achieving gender equality and combating gender violence in different areas of society and public life, as well as about international cooperation on development and migration.