Dr Paulo Casaca is founder and executive director of the “South Asia Democratic Forum”; founder of the international co-operation association registered in Brussels, ARC Humankind, ‘Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind’. Founder and senior partner of the consultancy company on sustainable development registered in Brussels, Land and Energy Sustainable Systems (2010-2020), Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US in the first semester of 2010.

Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, where, namely, he chaired the delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was a member of the national parliament in 1992-1993 and a member of the regional parliament of the Azores in 1990-1991. He was a Councilor in the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union from 1996 to 1999, chief of staff of the Minister for Territorial Planning and Public Works in 1995/1996, economics advisor for the socialist fraction in the national parliament in 1989/1990, 1992, 1994/1995.

He was an invited professor at the Technical University of Lisbon in 1995-1996; he lectured at the University of the Azores from 1980 to 1987 and in 1991, and at the Accounting High School in Lisbon from 1987 to 1989.