Sc.D. from University of Copenhagen, July 1973; Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters; Member of Academia Europaea (M.A.E.); Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (CorrFRSE); Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; Honorary Member of the Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics; Honorary Member of the International Statistical Institute.

Former Chairman of European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. Former member of Council of the Bernoulli Society, of Council of the Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics, of Council of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and of the Council of the International Statistical Institute.

President, Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1993-1995.

Chairman of ERCOM (European Research Centres on Mathematics) under EMS (Eu-ropean Mathematical Society), 1997-2002.

Editor of International Statistical Review 1980-1987; Member of the Editorial Board of Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 1974-1985; Associate Editor of Annals of Statistics 1992-1994; Editor-in-Chief of Bernoulli 1994-2000. Member of the Editorial Board of JEMS (Journal of the European Mathematical Society) 1998-.