She represented Swedish graduate-students of all categories in the royal commission ”The Future of Research,[1] the Andrén-commission, so named after the chancellor, professor Carl-Gustaf Andrén.
1983 the Ministry of Education and Research appointed her a member of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, section for professions of culture- and information, and the departments of humanities and religious science.
1991-1994 she was a member of the Uppsala University Gender equality committee.. Gunnel André was appointed by the Swedish Government as a specialist and a philological expert to the Biblical Commission translating the Old Testament into Swedish.
For over two decades she worked as scientific assistant to the editors of the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.
She has given classical concerts with the World Festival Choir in Russia, Lithuania and Hungary.