Eduardo Manahan Año (Tagalog: [ɛdwɐɾdo ˈaɲo]; born October 26, 1961) is a Filipino public official and retired general of the Philippine Army who served as the Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2018 to 2022. He previously served as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 2016 to 2017, and was the Commanding General of the Philippine Army from 2015 to 2016. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, Año, along with the rest of the Philippine government's Cabinet Secretaries, became part of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a task force formed to advise the President on the strategies which would effectively manage the spread of COVID-19 in the cou