Iván Cepeda Castro (born October 24, 1962) is a left-wing Colombian politician, human rights activist, and philosopher.

In 1965 at the age of 3, Cepeda and his family were forced into exile due to political repression, and during his early years lived in Prague.

Cepeda returned to Colombia in 1987 as a critic of the Soviet model, which he considered authoritarian, and became involved in the presidential campaign of Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa.

[6] Following his father's assassination, he created the Manuel Cepeda Foundation together with his wife, Claudia Girón, to identify the perpetrator of crime.

Cepeda would later found the National Movement for Victims, made up of 17 organizations that sought justice for crimes that occurred during the armed conflict in the 1980s and 1990s.