'National Agendas and Intergovernmentalism in European Responses to the Arab Uprisings', by Invitation (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2012)
'The ENP: Still Failing to Deliver on Democracy Support in North Africa', by Invitation (LSE, 2012)
'EU Foreign Policy: The View from the Mediterranean', by Invitation (LSE, 2012)
'The Middle East and Europe: Further Disengagement or Renewed Partnership?', by Invitation (Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and University of Southern Denmark, 2011)
'Getting Published in the Mediterranean', by Invitation (Chios Institute for Mediterranean Affairs, 2011)
'The Union for the Mediterranean', by Invitation (Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2011)
'Euro-Mediterranean Relations and Middle East Peace Diplomacy: Changing Dynamics under the UfM?', by Invitation (Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan, and Danish Jordanian University Cooperation, 2010)
'The UfM: Co-ownership as an early test for the Lisbon Treaty', by Invitation (LSE, 2010)
'Spain 2010 - Pressures, Risks and Opportunities', by Invitation (British-Spanish All Party Parliamentary Group, House of Lords, 2010)
'Spain in Europe and the World', by Invitation (St Antony's College, Oxford, 2010)
'Interpreting the Union for the Mediterranean - A European Retreat from Region-building?', by Invitation (Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies, Harvard University, 2010)
'La agenda de investigación sobre el Mediterráneo ante la Presidencia española de la UE', by Invitation (Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, 2009)
'Spain's Plans for its EU Presidency', by Invitation (European Research Institute, University of Birmingham, 2009)
'Adrift in the Mediterranean - Spain's Declining International Influence?', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies, 2008)
Debate on the Union for the Mediterranean, by Invitation (Maison Francais and St Antony's College, Oxford, 2008)
'España y el proceso euromediterráneo', by Invitation (European Institute for the Mediterranean, Barcelona, 2008)
'Europa y el Mediterráneo en 2008', by Invitation (Universidad de Zaragoza, 2008)
'The EU as a Global Actor in the Mediterranean', by Invitation (Universita di Catania, 2008)
'The Barcelona Process - What Next for the Mediterranean?', by Invitation (British Council, Malta, 2008)
'The Barcelona Process - What Next for the Mediterranean?', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (British Council, Malta, 2008)
'The Mediterranean: still a priority for Spain?', by Invitation (FCO, London, 2007)
'The Role of Universities in Building a Strong Euro-Mediterranean Research Area', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Invited by British Council, 2006)