2017 - Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Economia Política

2011 - Member of the Advisory Board of Critica e Sociedade: Revista de Cultura Política (Brazil)

2009 to 2015 - Director of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra

2005 - Coordinator of CES/FEUC's Doctoral Programe on "Governance, Knowledge and Innovation"

2005 - Member of the National Council on Environment and Sustainable Development.

2004 to 2010 - Coordinator of the Studies Center on Governance and market economy institutions.

2003 - Member of the Editorial Board of Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais.

2002 to 2005 - Member of the European Doctorate on Economics of Production and Development (universities of Barcelona, Autonoma de Madrid, Pierre Mendes France - Grenoble, Sussex, dell'Insubria, Copenhagen Business School e Neuchatel).

2002 to 2004 - President of the Scientific Board of Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.

1999 to 2005 - Member of the Scientific Board of Economia & Prospectiva (Journal of the Ministry of Economics).

1999 to 2001 - State Secretary for Higher Education.

1999 - Full Professor with definitive appointment of Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (Group I - Planning and Regional Economy)

1998 to 1999 - Consultant at Estudos de Economia, Journal of Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

1998 to 1999 - National Representative of the Key-Action "Melhoria da Base de Conhecimentos Sócioeconómicos", European Union's 5th RTD framework programme.

1996 to 1999 - President of the Coordination Committee of the Portuguese Central Territory.

1995 - Honorary Fellow of the Global Studies Research Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison­, EUA

1994 to 1994 - Fellow at the Summer Institute on American Economy and Public Policies, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, EUA

1994 - Member of the Editorial Board of Pôle Sud - Revue de Science Politique de l'Europe Méridionale (Journal of the Centre Comparatif d'Etudes sur les politiques et les Espaces Locaux, Montpellier, France)

1993 to 1999 - Director of Notas Económicas- Journal of the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.

1992 to 1994 - President of the Scientific Board at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra.

1991 to 1992 - President of the Pedagogic Council of the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.

1990 to 1997 - Coordinator of the master's in European Economy of the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.

1990 to 1991 - Vice-Director of the Centre for Social Studies.

1988 - Maître de conférences invité" of the Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse I (Laboratoire d'Etude et de Recherches en Economie de la Production) [1988]

1980 to 1999 - Member of the Editorial Board of Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais.

1980 - Permanent Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies.

Other Activities

2016 - Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Notas Económicas.

2016 - Member of the Scientific Council of E-Legis, electronic jornal as part of the Postgraduate Programme of the Chamber of Deputies Training Center (Brazil).

2014 - Membro do External Advisory Board do CETRAD, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

2013 - Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Association BLC3 - Technology and Innovation Campus.

2012 - Member of the Advisory Board of Crítica e Sociedade - revista de cultura política (Brazil).

2009 - Member of the Editorial Board of Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais.