Alfonso Prada
Alfonso Prada in 2023
Ambassador of Colombia to France
Assumed office
13 July 2023
PresidentGustavo Petro
Preceded byMauricio Vargas
Minister of the Interior
In office
7 August 2022 – 26 April 2023
PresidentGustavo Petro
Preceded byDaniel Palacios
Succeeded byLuis Fernando Velasco
Secretary General of the Presidency
In office
28 March 2017 – 7 August 2018
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded byLuis Guillermo Vélez
Succeeded byJorge Mario Eastman
Director of SENA
In office
20 August 2014 – 27 March 2017
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded byGina Parody
Succeeded byMaría Andrea Nieto
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
In office
20 July 2010 – 20 July 2014
ConstituencyCapital 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
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political partyColombia Renaciente (2019-present)[1]
Other political
affiliations		Party of the U (2014-2019)

Green Party (2010-2014) Liberal (1998-2010)

New Liberalism (1988-1989)
EducationFree University of Colombia (BL)

Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil (born 6 October 1963) is a Colombian lawyer, university professor and politician, and was Minister of the Interior from 7 August 2022 to 26 April 2023.

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]

References

  1. ↑ El exsantismo comenzó su reencauche en el partido afro
  2. ↑ "Members of the Chamber of Representatives, Alfonso-Prada-Gil". camara.gov.co. 20 July 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Alfonso Prada es el nuevo jefe de debate de Gustavo Petro". 6 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Alfonso Prada reemplazará a Lucho Garzón en presidencia del Verde". El Espectador. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Alfonso Prada, nuevo presidente y vocero del Partido Verde". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 6 September 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
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