Anabela Fátima Xavier Sales Ritchie (Chinese: 林綺濤; born May 25, 1949) is a politician from Macau.
[2] She gained a master's degree in Germanic philology from the University of Lisbon in 1971, following it with a diploma in pedagogic sciences from the same institution.
[citation needed] In 1992 Carlos Augusto Corrêa Paes D'Assumpção, then serving as president of the Assembly, died suddenly, and Ritchie was elected to succeed him.
[2][3] She served in the post until the handover of Macau to China in 1999, when she was required to relinquish the position because she opted to keep her Portuguese nationality.
Amongst them, Andre Duarte Xavier Sales Ritchie gained notoriety during his spell in charge of the high-profile Macau Light Rapid Transit project.