Pilar Alegría

Pilar Alegría
Official portrait, 2023
Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports
In office
12 July 2021 – 22 December 2025
MonarchFelipe VI
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byIsabel Celaá
Succeeded byMilagros Tolón
Spokesperson of the Government
In office
21 November 2023 – 22 December 2025
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byIsabel Rodríguez García
Succeeded byElma Saiz
Delegate of the Government of Spain in Aragon
In office
12 February 2020 – 11 July 2021
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byCarmen Sánchez Pérez
Succeeded byRosa Serrano Sierra
Councillor of Innovation, High Research and Universities of Aragón
In office
5 July 2015 – 7 August 2019
PresidentJavier Lambán
Preceded byDolores Serrat
Succeeded byMaru Díaz
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
17 August 2023 – 1 December 2023
Succeeded byVíctor Javier Ruiz de Diego
ConstituencyZaragoza
In office
1 Abril 2008 – 18 June 2015
ConstituencyZaragoza
Member of the Cortes of Aragon
In office
18 June 2015 – 20 June 2019
ConstituencyZaragoza
Personal details
Born (1977-11-01) 1 November 1977
PartySpanish Socialist Workers' Party

María del Pilar Alegría Continente (pronounced [piˈlaɾ aleˈɣɾi.a]; born 1 November 1977) is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician from Zaragoza who served as minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports from July 2021 to December 2025.

Alegría gained a master's degree in primary education and worked with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports in the Government of Aragon.[1] In 2008 she entered national politics when she was elected to the Spanish national parliament as a deputy for Zaragoza province as the second placed candidate on the PSOE list.[2]

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