Diana Morant Ripoll (Catalan pronunciation: [diˈana moˈɾant]; born 25 June 1980) is a Spanish politician who has been Minister of Science and Innovation since 12 July 2021.

After three years working as an engineer in the private sector, in February 2011, she was invited by José Manuel Orengo Pastor, who was Mayor of Gandía at that moment, to become a candidate of PSPV-PSOE, the Valencian branch of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, for Gandia in the Spanish local elections that were held on May 24th, 2011.

In those elections, PSPV-PSOE obtained 10 council seats and she was officially named councilor of the local government of Gandía on June 11th, 2011.

[3] She was unopposed, so she was proclaimed the socialist party's mayoral candidate for the city of Gandia for the 2015 Spanish local elections.

In the municipal elections of 2015, the PP (the Spanish conservative party) won 12 seats in the council, the PSPV-PSOE 7, the coalition Més Gandia 5, and Citizens 1.