From 2015 to 2017 he advised the Moroccan Government in the context of the Presidencies of the UN Climate Conferences COP21 in Paris and COP22 in Marrakech. He is the co-founder of the Federation of Aluminium Consumers in Europe (FACE) and he has been advising for the past 20 years the aluminium industries of the GCC and of Russia. He co-organized the first Brussels Summit on the role of Sovereign Wealth Funds for growth and development and, in partnership with UNCTAD and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the first international conference on the role of emerging economies in the transition to the green economy, at the UN Headquarters in Geneva, as well as a conference on the new roles of the Global South to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement.

He has been for 17 years a Senior Adviser and negotiator for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministries of Economy and Planning and then of Foreign Trade, including for the negotiation of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement and as UAE Delegate to the WTO where he created and coordinated the Sectoral Initiative on Raw Materials. He has been the Permanent Representative for the GCC of the Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation and, as an expert, has been regularly consulted by the EU Commission and the EU Parliament on EU-GCC relations. He was also Member of the Board of the CCMO (International Middle-East Researchers Association) and President of the European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation (MEDEA), a Brussels-based think-tank.