Ricardo Manuel Machado Ferreira is a Professor & Author in Procurement, Risk & Supply Sovereignty™, dedicated to creating original, evidence-based executive frameworks for boards, CFOs and supply leaders operating under pressure.
He is the author of Mastering Procurement Processes — The Global Blueprint for Intelligent, Ethical, and Sustainable Supply Leadership and Supply Sovereignty & Strategic Procurement Leadership — Total Value Ownership (TVO™), Ethical Control, and End-to-End Resilience for Critical Global Chains. In these works, Ricardo introduces constructs such as Total Value Ownership (TVO™), Supply Sovereignty™, Decision Fragility Index (DFI™), Governance for Speed™, and Integrity Pack™.
His methodologies are used by leaders across Europe to design procurement systems that are intelligent, ethical, transparent and resilient — systems that accelerate decisions, reduce fragility, protect national interest, and reinforce institutional credibility. Ricardo’s work establishes a new discipline shaped by evidence-based governance, integrity-led decision-making, and sovereign supply resilience.
Ricardo Manuel Machado Ferreira is a professor, author, and creator of executive-grade methodologies in Procurement, Risk and Supply Governance.
His work helps Boards, CFOs and public institutions design intelligent, ethical and sovereign supply systems that reduce fragility, strengthen decision-making, accelerate execution, and protect both organisational and national interests.
Over the past years, Ricardo has developed a suite of frameworks — Integrity Pack™, Total Value Ownership (TVO™), Decision Fragility Index (DFI™) and Sovereign Supply Architecture™ — now referenced by leaders across Europe and used to strengthen mission-critical procurement, governance and national-interest operations.
He works with executives, boards, public leaders and international organisations to design procurement systems that are intelligent, ethical, transparent and resilient — systems that protect value, accelerate decisions and reinforce institutional credibility.
Ricardo is also the author of Mastering Procurement Processes and Supply Sovereignty & Strategic Procurement Leadership, two executive-level reference works that consolidate his academic contribution and establish a new discipline shaped by evidence-based governance, integrity-led decision-making and sovereign supply resilience.
