He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union to the Republic of Korea in Seoul from 2017-2020. Since his retirement in September 2020, he has been teaching at various universities (Brussels School of Governance, Webster University/Vienna, LUIIS/Rome, University of Kobe, Ritsumeikan University/Kyoto) and has specialized in EU foreign policy, EU-Asia relations and inter-regionalism, cyber diplomacy) areas in which he has published extensively.