{"id":23922,"date":"2025-04-09T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/?post_type=ac_scholars&#038;p=23922"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:47:59","slug":"luis-valente-de-oliveira","status":"publish","type":"ac_scholars","link":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/scholars\/luis-valente-de-oliveira\/","title":{"rendered":"Lu\u00eds Valente de Oliveira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lu\u00eds Francisco Valente de Oliveira is a civil engineer. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP) and obtained his doctorate from the same institution in 1973. He specialized in regional development planning and transport, undertaking further studies in the Hague in 1969 and at Imperial College London in 1971. He became a full professor at FEUP in 1980, teaching spatial planning, transport and regional development. His major works include <em>Esquemas Te\u00f3ricos e Modelos de Estruturas Espaciais Urbanas <\/em>(1972), <em>Regionaliza\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> (2005) and <em>Os Meus Compatriotas <\/em>(2021). In 2022, he published a 12-volume memoir entitled <em>Trilhos: Mem\u00f3rias. Por vezes quase um di\u00e1rio<\/em>, which recounts the most significant moments of his intense and multifaceted professional and political career (<a href=\"https:\/\/books.fe.up.pt\/index.php\/feup\/catalog\/book\/978-972-8961-17-6\">https:\/\/books.fe.up.pt\/index.php\/feup\/catalog\/book\/978-972-8961-17-6<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He held prominent roles in public administration, including Director of the Technical Office of the Northern Region Planning Commission (1973\u20131975) and President of the Northern Region Coordination Commission (1979\u20131985). He served as Minister of Education and Scientific Research (1978\u20131979), Minister of Planning and Territorial Administration (1985\u20131995) and Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing (2002\u20132003). He played a pivotal role in the early Community Support Frameworks and in advocacy of regionalization. He was President of the Founders\u2019 Council of Casa da M\u00fasica (2012\u20132024) and a Board Member of the Serralves Foundation (1998\u20132000). He was also Chancellor of the Orders of Civil Merit from 2013 to 2016. He is a member of the Academy of Engineering and member of the advisory board of the Portuguese Order of Engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has received numerous national and international honors, including the Gr\u00e3-Cruz da Ordem Militar de Sant\u2019Iago da Espada (2017), the Gr\u00e3-Cruz da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique (1981), the Gr\u00e3-Cruz da Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil, 1987) and the Gr\u00e3-Cruz da Ordem de Honra (Greece). He was made Cavaleiro da Ordem Nacional da Legi\u00e3o de Honra (France, 2016). He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tr\u00e1s-os-Montes and Alto Douro (2013).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lu\u00eds Francisco Valente de Oliveira is a civil engineer. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP) and obtained his doctorate from the same institution in 1973. He specialized in regional development planning and transport, undertaking further studies in the Hague in 1969 and at Imperial College London in 1971. 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