Pedro Sánchez has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He holds a PhD in Economics and is Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which he joined in 1993. He was also secretary general of the PSOE, leader of the opposition and candidate for the Presidency of the Government between 2014 and 2016. Previously, he was a member of Congress for the Madrid constituency and a councillor on the Madrid City Council.

Married and a father, Sánchez studied high school at the Ramiro de Maeztu secondary school in Madrid, where he was a youth player for the Estudiantes basketball club. In 1995, he graduated in Economics and Business Studies from the Real Colegio Universitario María Cristina, a centre attached to the Complutense University of Madrid. Subsequently, he completed two postgraduate studies: a Master's Degree in EU Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Diploma in Advanced Studies in European Economic and Monetary Integration from the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset.

In 2012, Sánchez received his PhD in Economics from the Camilo José Cela University, where he taught Economics.

Prior to his time as a university professor, he worked as an advisor to the European Parliament and was a member of the cabinet of the United Nations High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.