| Alfonso Prada | |
| Office: | Ambassador of Colombia to France |
| President: | Gustavo Petro |
| Term Start: | 13 July 2023 |
| Predecessor: | Mauricio Vargas |
| Office1: | Minister of the Interior |
| President1: | Gustavo Petro |
| Term Start1: | 7 August 2022 |
| Term End1: | 26 April 2023 |
| Predecessor1: | Daniel Palacios |
| Successor1: | Luis Fernando Velasco |
| Office2: | Secretary General of the Presidency |
| President2: | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Term Start2: | 28 March 2017 |
| Term End2: | 7 August 2018 |
| Predecessor2: | Luis Guillermo Vélez |
| Successor2: | Jorge Mario Eastman |
| Office3: | Director of SENA |
| President3: | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Term Start3: | 20 August 2014 |
| Term End3: | 27 March 2017 |
| Predecessor3: | Gina Parody |
| Successor3: | María Andrea Nieto |
| Office4: | Member of the Chamber of Representatives |
| Constituency4: | Capital District |
| Term Start4: | 20 July 2010 |
| Term End4: | 20 July 2014 |
| Office5: | Councillor of Bogotá |
| Term Start5: | 1 January 1998 |
| Term End5: | 1 January 2006 |
| Birth Name: | Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil |
| Birth Date: | 6 October 1963 |
| Birth Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Party: | Colombia Renaciente (2019-present)[1] |
| Otherparty: | Party of the U (2014-2019) Green Party (2010-2014)Liberal (1998-2010)New Liberalism (1988-1989) |
| Education: | Free 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]