- Chairing a session during the University Industry Innovation Network University-Industry Interaction Conference, Amsterdam, May 2013
- TUNING High Level International Policy Forum, Higher Education and Employability: Current Policies and Future Trends, Brussels, November 2012
- European Union Committee of the Regions, Regional and Peripheral Universities within the Europe 2020 Strategy (Chair of panel on the modernisation of universities), Brussels, October 2012
- EAIE Conference, Rethinking education, Reshaping economies (Chairing a session on Leadership, governance and management in internationalisation), Dublin, September 2012
- Annual Conference of the Technopolicy Network on regional Innovation Instruments for shaping a Knowledge Regions, Leuven and Genk, September 2012
- RUOA (Réseau Universités Ouest Atlantique), The European Modernisation Agenda : new governance models funding and role for regional authorities, Nantes, June 2012
- Université de Strasbourg, La prospective, un outil au service de la stratégie universitaire, Strasbourg, March 2012
- EU-Australia Policy Dialogue, Quality assurance in and for international education: key issues and challenges, Brussels, March 2012
- ENQA-ICA, Benchmarking for quality assurance agencies (keynote presentation), Helsinki, June 2011
- Baltic Sea Region University Network, University-Business Cooperation for Regional Development, Riga, May 2011
- OECD Higher Education in Regions and Cities - For Stronger, Cleaner and Fairer Regions, Seville, February 2011
- EAIE Conference, Connecting Continents, Madrid, September 2010
- European Commission, Lifelong learning programme info days, December 2009
- EAIR Conference, Fighting for Harmony - students, society and the academy in tune, Vilnius, August 2009
