Carlo Carraro is President Emeritus and a Professor of Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He was President of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014.
He was also President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) and Scientific Director of the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation (FEEM). He is Vice-President and member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC WG III). He is also Strategic Advisor of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and Co-Chair of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) Advisory Committee. He is President of H-Farm Education and the HforHuman Foundation. He is also Scientific Director of the Fondazione Nord Est and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Resrach (CEPR), London, CESifo Group Munich and CEPS, Brussels.