A member of the General and Supervisory Board of EDP Energias de Portugal since 2013 and of the Science Council of the Catholic University of Angola since 2015; chairs the General Assembly of the Madeira Development Society since 2014. He served as Director for National Economies at the European Commission in Brussels, Minister of Finance for Portugal, chaired the Parliamentary Committee for European Affairs and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission from 1985 until2017. He was the last President of the OECD Development Centre in Paris and of the Tropical Research Institute in Lisbon, worked at the IMF, World Bank, UN and EBRD and taught at Yale, Princeton, Institute for Political Studies in Paris and University of Angola.