Alfonso Prada

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Prada and the second or maternal family name is Gil.

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.

Alfonso Prada
Alfonso Prada in 2023
Ambassador of Colombia to France
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 July 2023
President	Gustavo Petro
Preceded by	Mauricio Vargas
Minister of the Interior
In office 7 August 2022 – 26 April 2023
President	Gustavo Petro
Preceded by	Daniel Palacios
Succeeded by	Luis Fernando Velasco
Secretary General of the Presidency
In office 28 March 2017 – 7 August 2018
President	Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by	Luis Guillermo Vélez
Succeeded by	Jorge Mario Eastman
Director of SENA
In office 20 August 2014 – 27 March 2017
President	Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by	Gina Parody
Succeeded by	María Andrea Nieto
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
In office 20 July 2010 – 20 July 2014
Constituency	Capital District
Councillor of Bogotá
In office 1 January 1998 – 1 January 2006
Personal details
Born	Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil (1963-10-06) 6 October 1963 (age 61) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political party	Colombia Renaciente (2019-present)[1]
Other political affiliations	Party of the U (2014-2019) Green Party (2010-2014) Liberal (1998-2010) New Liberalism (1988-1989)
Education	Free University of Colombia (BL)

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.^[2]

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.^[3][4][5]