| Claudio Alvarado | |
| Birth Date: | 1960 2, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
| Office: | Member of the Senate of Chile |
| Constituency: | 13th Circunscription |
| Term Start: | 4 August 2020 |
| Term End: | 11 March 2022 |
| President: | Sebastián Piñera |
| Office1: | Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency |
| Term Start1: | 4 June 2020 |
| Term End1: | 28 July 2020 |
| Predecessor1: | Felipe Ward |
| Successor1: | Cristián Monckeberg |
| Office2: | Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development |
| Term Start2: | 4 November 2019 |
| Term End2: | 4 June 2020 |
| Predecessor2: | Felipe Salaberry |
| Successor2: | Juan Manuel Masferrer |
| Office3: | General Undersecretary of the Presidency |
| Term Start3: | 11 March 2010 |
| Term End3: | 11 March 2014 |
| Predecessor3: | Edgardo Riveros Marín |
| Successor3: | Patricia Silva Meléndez |
| Office4: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile |
| Constituency4: | 58th District |
| Term Start4: | 11 March 1994 |
| Term End4: | 11 March 2010 |
| Predecessor4: | Juan Alberto Pérez Muñoz |
| Successor4: | Alejandro Santana Tirachini |
| Office5: | Major of Quemchi |
| Term Start5: | June 1985 |
| Term End5: | December 1986 |
| Predecessor5: | Colonel Leopoldo Moya Bruce |
| Successor5: | María Eugenia Acevedo Andrade |
| Party: | Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Profession: | Business management |
| Spouse: | Unknown |
| Children: | Five |
Claudio Patricio Alvarado Andrade (born 7 February 1960) is a Chilean politician and business manager, militant from Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI). From June 2020 to July 2020, he served as Minister Secretary General of the Presidency[1] [2]
In 1985, aged 25, Alvarado was appointed by Augusto Pinochet regime (1973–1990) as a major of Quemchi, a northwest commune in Chiloé Island.[3] Then, in 1990s, he was elected deputy for the 58th District which groupes towns from Chiloé. In this position, he remained sixteen years (1994–2010) until 2009–10 general elections won by centre-rightist Sebastián Piñera, who appointed him as General Undersecretary of the Presidency,[4] charge he held during all Piñera's first government (2010–2014).
In 2018, with Piñera's non-consecutive reelection, he was again named as general undersecretary (2018–2019),[4] as Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development (2019–2020)[5] and finally as Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency.