Alfred Ngaro is a New Zealand politician, who served as leader of NewZeal from 2023 to 2026. He was a list member of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2011 to 2020, representing the National Party.

Ngaro is the first New Zealander of Cook Islands descent to be elected to Parliament in New Zealand. He was Minister for Pacific Peoples and Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector in the final year of the Fifth National Government of New Zealand.

He was later elected leader of the socially conservative New Zeal party in July 2023, and unsuccessfully stood as a list candidate at the subsequent general election. In March 2026 Ngaro was introduced as a New Zealand First candidate for the 2026 New Zealand general election.

Ngaro was raised in Te Atatū and attended the local schools of Edmonton Primary, Rangeview Intermediate and Henderson High School. Both his parents came from the Cook Islands. Ngaro's father, Daniel Ngaro, is from Aitutaki and Pukapuka, and was a union delegate. The family have a long tradition of voting for the Labour Party. His mother, Toko Kirianu, is from Mangaia. His parents worked hard, his mother as a cleaner and his father as a labourer, to give Ngaro and his siblings education and training opportunities.

Ngaro's grandmother, Rita Goldstein, is of both Cook Island and Jewish descent, her father being of Polish-Jewish ancestry. Ngaro has described himself as "Polynesian by birth and Jewish by descent". His wife Mokauina is of Samoan-Niuean descent. They have four children: three boys and one girl.

He trained and qualified as an electrician and also completed his theological degree at the Henderson campus of the Bible College of New Zealand (now Laidlaw College). Prior to entering Parliament, Ngaro was a consultant in community-led development and governance with expertise in New Zealand, Cook Islands and Canada. He co-pioneered several community initiatives such as the Tamaki Achievement Pathway, Healthy Village Action Zone (HVAZ) Project, and the Inspiring Communities Exchange Network sponsored by the Tindall Foundation. Ngaro's governance experience includes key roles on the National Family Violence Taskforce, Auckland District Health Board and Pacific Advisory Committee Auckland City Council. He is also an Ambassador for the White Ribbon campaign. He later won a Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader Award for his work on the Tamaki Transformation Project.

Ngaro served as the Auckland District Health Board's Pacific committee chairman and as the Tamaki College board of trustees chairman. He was a member of various advisory committees for the Ministry of Social Development.

Ngaro was encouraged by his friend Sam Lotu-Iiga, then the first-term National MP in Maungakiekie and a former Auckland City Councillor in Maungakiekie, to become active in politics. Ngaro contested the new Maungakiekie-Tāmaki ward on the Auckland Council at the 2010 Auckland local elections, as a Citizens and Ratepayers candidate. His campaign manager was Denise Krum. Ngaro finished second to Richard Northey and was not elected. He reportedly said, in his concession statement on election night, that "'the sandpit of local government' was not for him and he would aim higher to where the 'big people' play."