Enrique Austria Manalo (born July 21, 1952) is a Filipino diplomat currently serving as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Marcos Jr. administration since June 30, 2022.
From 1986 to 1989, he was the First Secretary and consul at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., and then served as the Special Assistant to the First Undersecretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs until 1992.
He was back at the Philippine Mission to the United Nations in New York from 2000 to 2003 serving as its Deputy Permanent Representative (with rank of Ambassador).
[16] In August 2018, Manalo was appointed by President Duterte as the ambassador of the Philippines to Germany[17] and in February 2020, he was appointed as the 21st Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, of which has been left vacant since October 12, 2018, after former UN Permanent Representative Teodoro Locsin Jr. left the post to become the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (replacing Cayetano, whom the latter resigned as Secretary of Foreign Affairs on October 17, 2018, upon running for the post of representative of Taguig–Pateros in the May 2019 elections, of which Cayetano eventually won).
[19] In July 2022, Manalo was appointed by President Bongbong Marcos to serve as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, having previously served the post in an acting capacity in the Duterte administration, of which he was sworn in on July 1, 2022, succeeding Teodoro Locsin Jr., and eventually vacating the post of permanent representative of the Philippines to the United Nations on the same day (of which the latter post would later be filled up by former Philippine ambassador to the United Kingdom, Antonio M. Lagdameo on July 7, 2022;[20] succeeding Manalo).