He was Director of the Swedish Psychoanalytic Institute 1989-93, president of the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society 1993-97, vice president of the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) 1997-2001, member of COMPSED (committee of psychoanalytic education) of the IPA 2000-2004, member of the Working Party on Psychoanalytic Education of the EPF, Member of the Liaison Committee for the IPA interim Provisional Society Vienna Arbetskreis for Psychoanalysis, member of the IPA:s Research Advisory Board, chair of the Monitoring and Advisory Board to the Int. J. Psychoanal. .