2014-05 to 2014-08 - Consultant of the project "Brazil-EU exchange on administrative simplification experiences" (CESO PT/Casa Civil da Presidência da República BR)

2014 - Non-executive director of Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation Board

2013-12 to 2014-07 - Consultant on the «Evaluation of services of the one stop shop (BAÚ) in Mozambique, with subsequent elaboration of proposals for modernization»

2013-11 to 2014-09 - Member of the Selection Committee for the Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2013-2014 Mayors Challenge

2013-11 to 2014-03 - Member of the Jury of the «Doyen Roger Houin» Prize

2013-10 - Member of the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens

2013-01 to 2013-08 - Consultant of the project "Brazil-EU exchange on Participatory Democracy". Responsible for conducting a study on the European Best Practices for Measuring Public Services Users Satisfaction

2013 - Member of the Comité de Especialistas para Fundos Comunitários (Experts Committee for European Founding)

2013 - Member of the Scientific Council of the School of Economics, University of Coimbra

2012 to 2014 - Member of the Advisory Council of the GPTIC - Grupo de Projeto para Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (Working Group for the Information and Communication Technologies)

2007 to 2011 - Secretary of State for Administrative Modernisation (XVII and XVIII Constitutional Governments)

2005 to 2007 - President of the Unidade de Coordenação da Modernização Administrativa (Office of Public Services Reform)

2002 to 2005 - President of the Permanent Evaluation and Monitoring Commission of the Code of Good Business Practices, signed by the Portuguese Industry Confederation and the Portuguese Retailers Association

2002 to 2002 - Expert of the European Commission for the draft of a Report on Higher Education in Angola and Mozambique within the EU-ACP Co-operation Programme in the field of Higher Education (With Hanns Schoenmakers)

2001 to 2005 - Member of the Observatório do Endividamento dos Consumidores (Observatory of Consumers Indebtedness) at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the School of Economics

2000 to 2001 - Expert of the Economic and Social Council of E.U. - Group I. "Section on Single Market, Production and Consumption - Households Overindebtedness Project"

1998 to 2005 - Member of the Observatório Permanente da Justiça Portuguesa (Permanent Observatory of Portuguese Justice) at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra

1998 to 2002 - President of the Observatório do Comércio (Independent Office for Studies on Commerce of the Ministry of Economics)

1996 to 1998 - President of the Scientific Council of the School of Economics

1993 to 1995 - Scientific coordination of II Post-graduate Course on "Industrial Quality and International Affairs", School of Economics, University of Coimbra

1993 - Vice-President of the AIDE - Association Internationale de Droit Economique

1991 to 1993 - Vice-Director of the Centre for Social Studies of the School of Economics, University of Coimbra

1983 to 1995 - Member of the Editorial Board of the Revue Internationale de Droit Economique (International Journal of Economic Law)

1976 to 1977 - Member of the Directive Council of the School of Economics, University of Coimbra