Alexandre Padilha

Alexandre Rocha Santos Padilha is a Brazilian physician and politician affiliated with the Workers Party (PT). He served as minister of Institutional Relations in the current government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2023 to 2025, a position he previously held from 2009 to 2011. He served as minister of health under Dilma Rousseff from 2011 to 2014. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of São Paulo state in the 2014 election. On 1 January 2023, he was once again named Secretary of Institutional Affairs by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who reinstated the office.