Ricardo Salomão was born in Lisbon in 1956. He began his studies at Republican Center, followed by the Liceu Gil Vicente. He dropped out of law to study Journalism and, later, Portuguese Studies, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. After teaching secondary education in Lisbon, he went to Macau, where he participated in the creation and management of the Portuguese Language Diffusion Center and developed several promotion projects, such as CLIP, Clube da Língua Portuguesa. He later taught at Shantou University in China. He was an advisor to the new Chinese leadership in the field of staff location. He was also the 1st responsible for the Multimedia Laboratory of the IPOR Language Center in Macau. At the University of Macau, under the guidance of Prof. Doctor Malaca Casteleiro completed his Masters in Linguistic Studies with a thesis on online courses in Portuguese as a Foreign Language. Back in Lisbon, at Universidade Aberta, he devoted himself to Linguistic Policy and Planning, especially to Languages ​​and Cultures in Export Communications, the subject of his PhD Thesis, under the guidance of Prof. Doctor Maria Emília Ricardo Marques and Prof. Doctor Stephen Hagen.