Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil (born 6 October 1963) is a Colombian lawyer, professor, and politician who served as

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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

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's private secretary during his

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for the New Liberalism movement. Years later, he served as Councilor of

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for three terms since 1998 with the endorsement of the

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where his colleagues named him the best Councilor of Bogotá on three occasions based on the evaluation carried out by the

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, 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

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, with the political endorsement of the

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. During the

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, 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

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of the

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at the

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, 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

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for the office of

, a position for which he would be sworn in on August 7, 2022.

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