Ricardo Valente is city councillor for economy, employment and entrepreneurship and city councillor for finance, economic activities and inspectorate. He is in charge of InvestPorto (for investment Investment attraction) and Member of the Board of Porto Vivo SRU (for urban development, rehabilitation and affordable housing policies). Mr. Valente is also a professor at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto and at PBS - Porto Business School. From 1992 to 2016, Ricardo worked in risk management consulting, capital markets (as director and board member of brokerage firms), asset management (as CEO of one of the largest independent asset management firms in Portugal), investment banking (as member of the board of a bank), and was also an investment consultant. He has a master's degree in finance and a MBA in finance from the Catholic University of Lisbon, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Porto. Ricardo is the author of several books on risk management.