Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento (born 2 October 1949)[1] is a Colombian lawyer and politician.
He attended Pontifical Xavierian University where he graduated in Law with a concentration in Socio-Political Sciences.
Afterwards he moved to the United States where he received a Master of Arts in Global Development Economics (MA GDE) from Boston University, and advanced studies in Urban and Regional Development at Toronto University.
As the 2nd Attorney General of Colombia, he brought charges and stood against the administration of Ernesto Samper Pizano during the Proceso 8000.
A Radical Change party politician, he was elected Representative and Senator in the Congress of Colombia, and served as Minister of National Education under the administration of Virgilio Barco Vargas.