Alfonso Prada

Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil (born 6 October 1963) is a Colombian lawyer, professor, and politician who served as Minister of the Interior from 2022 to 2023 during the Petro administration. He previously served as Secretary General of the Presidency from 2017 to 2018 and as Director of SENA from 2014 to 2017 during the Santos administration.

He has served as Luis Carlos Galán's private secretary during his presidential campaign for the New Liberalism movement. Years later, he served as Councilor of Bogotá for three terms since 1998 with the endorsement of the Liberal Party where his colleagues named him the best Councilor of Bogotá on three occasions based on the evaluation carried out by the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, the newspaper El Tiempo and the Crown Foundation.

In the 2010 legislative elections, he won a seat, which led him to the Chamber of Representatives for the Capital District, with the political endorsement of the Green Party.

During the 2014 presidential campaign of Juan Manuel Santos, he served as coordinator, which later led him to serve as Director of the Training Education Service where he stood out for promoting the internationalization of the entity, achieving international distinctions such as the Tech Challenge Innovation Fund. 2015 award which was given to him by the office of the Barack Obama administration at the White House, in March 2017, he would serve as Secretary General of the presidency

Prada would serve as Head of Debate for Gustavo Petro's 2022 presidential campaign, which would later lead him to be listed as a presidential nominee for the office of Minister of the Interior, a position for which he would be sworn in on August 7, 2022.