Pilar Cancela Rodríguez

Pilar Cancela Rodríguez
Secretary of State for International Cooperation
Assumed office
July 21, 2021
Preceded byÁngeles Moreno Bau
Member of the Spanish Parliament
In office
January 5, 2016  July 27, 2021
Personal details
Born (1967-08-21) August 21, 1967
Stuttgart, Germany
Political partyPSOE
PSdeG–PSOE
EducationUniversity of Santiago de Compostela
OccupationPolitician

Pilar Cancela Rodríguez (August 21, 1967, Stuttgart, Germany) is a Spanish politician who has been serving as Secretary of State for International Cooperation in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2021.

Since 2017, Cancela Rodríguez has been Secretary of the Migration Policies and PSOE del Exterior area in the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE. She has been a deputy for the Partido de los Socialistas de Galicia-PSOE (PSdeG-PSOE) in Congress during the XI, XII, XIII and XIV legislatures. From September 2016 to July 2021 she chaired the Equality Commission of the Congress of Deputies.