2018/…
- Founder and President of the Association “IASA – Institute for Advanced Studies and Awarness”
2017
- Consultant for OCDE, for Transport Decentralization in Ukraine.
2015/2017
- Co- author of EU “Guidelines for Urban Logistics” produced for DG Move.
2013/…
- Advisor of the European Commission for the ‘Smart, Green and Integrated Transport’ Advisory Group for Horizon 2020 – The Framework Program for Research and Innovation.
2012/2013
- Evaluator of European Commission RTD 7FP program Smart Cities
Consultant for World Bank IEG (Independent Evaluation Group) for Evaluation of the World Bank Group Support for Public Private Partnerships in Transport , Energy and Education for the period 2002-2012 - External Advisor for the IEG Evaluation: Sustainable Provision of Infrastructure Services, and the World Group [ An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support since 2002 ]
2011-2013
- Consultant for the Asian Development Bank, for the production of Road Maps for urban development in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
2007-2012
- Main author of three strategic documents for the European Parliament on “The Security of Air Cargo from Third countries” (2012) ; “Impact of the Financial Crisis in Air Transport Market, for the European Parliament” (2009); “The impact of low-cost airline strategies on infrastructure and passenger flows” (2007).
2011
- Coordinator of the studies for “Urban Mobility Road Maps for Kazakhstan and Uzbekhstan”, for the Asean Development Bank
2010
- Vice-Chair of the 12th World Conference on Transportation Research, Lisbon, July 2010
- Chair of the 16th Panamerican Congress on Transport, Transit and Logistics, Lisbon, July 2010
- Leader of the project “AIRDEV – Business Models for Airport Development and Management” for MIT Portugal Program.
2009-2010
- Responsible for the development of the National Transport Accounts for the Road Sector
- Co-Leader of the Logistic Plan for Portugal , done for the Land Transport Regulator (IMTT)
2008/2010
- Co-leader of the project “AirNets – Airlines and Airport Networks” for MIT Portugal Program
2009
- Study on compliance with air passenger rights – misleading advertising on the websites of airlines and on-line travel agents – General Directorate of Health and consumers – European Commission (DGSANCO-EC)
- Leader of the Strategic Plan for Land Transport in Portugal , done for the Land Transport Regulator (IMTT)
2005
- Chair of the 9th International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, Lisbon, September 2005
- Member of the strategic reflexion group of UITP to the development of Public Transport in Latin America to the 20s0 horizon
2004
- Study for the Development of Rail Freight Transport in Portugal, for the Rail Regulator INTF
2003-2007
- Responsible for the design of the reform of urban mobility systems in Brazil and for the technical contents of the framework law on urban mobility, technical advisor for the public participation process that led to the approval of the law in the Council of Cities
2002
- Responsible for the discussion of the reform in Urban Mobility Systems in the Irish Transport Forum
2003-2010
- Project Director in a total of 19 R&D projects for the European Commission in the 5th and 6th and 7th Framework programs (Transport and Research), on Public Transport Regulation, Institutional Design, Organisation and Change, Contractual Relationships, Intermodality and Energy in Public Transport
2002
- Assisted the creation of TRANSPORTNET, a group of 8 European University Research Groups in Transport Systems for mutual support in advanced research and education (Univ. Aegean; Univ. Antwerp; Tech. Univ. Delft; Univ. Genoa; IWW – Un. Karlsruhe; ENAC – EPF Lausanne; I.S.Técnico, Lisboa; LET – Un. Lyon 2)
2001-2003
- Assisted SATA Airlines Board in the public tender for Air Transport, between Continental Portugal and Azores
2001
- Responsible for the Macau Airport and Air Traffic System Quality Certification ISO 2001. This was the first Airport Quality Certification done worldwide under the framework of ISO2001.
2000-2014
- Participant of the ECMT Round Tables on Airports as Multimodal Interfaces; Safety in Public Transports; Regulation of Rail Transports; Decentralisation of Transport Policies, Public Private Partnerships, Ex-ante appraisal of Transport Investments.
2000/…
- Regularly invited for participation in high level meetings on strategy and policy for EC-DGTREN (European Commission, Directorate General for Transport and Energy), EC- DG Research and several other international organizations and agencies
1995-2008
- Quality Auditor for Transport Systems, having audited a total of 22 companies (three audits each).
1995-2003
- Executive Director in a total of 8 R&D projects for the European Commission in the 4th, 5th and 6th Framework programs (Transport), on Public Transport regulation, on Prices and their Acceptability in Transport Systems, on new models for management of Railways after separation of infrastructure and operations, on Motorway charges for Heavy Goods Vehicles in Europe
1989
- Opening and development of the Oporto delegation of VIASA- Venezuelana Internacional de Aviación S.A.
1995/…
- Supervisor of several professional trainees in research and consultancy both in professional and academic environment.
1994-1996
- Leader of the negotiation of the labour contract common to 18 International Air Transport Companies operating in Portugal