The Deputy Chief of Staff, AFP Superintendent, PMA Edilberto Pardo Adan served as executive director with the rank of Undersecretary in the Presidential Commission on the Visiting Forces (PCFV) from 2007 to 2013 after retirement from the military service in 2006.
He finished his MBA degree in 1979 from the Asian Institute of Management and took strategic level studies as an International Fellow of the US Army War College (Class of 1996) in Pennsylvania.
After Adan's retirement from the active service, he served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Armed Forces and Police Savings and Loan Association Inc.
In 2007 he was appointed by former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to be the executive director of the VFA Commission with the rank of Undersecretary, a post he served until 2014.
As such, he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States and developing policy and legislative recommendations.