Carlo CARRARO

Carlo Carraro is President Emeritus and Professor of Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He was President (Rector) of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014 and Director of the Department of Economics from 2005 to 2008.

From 2009 to 2023 he was Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was also Chair of the Executive Board of the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), President of the Italian National Committee on Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures and Mobility established by the Italian Minister of Transports and Infrastructures, and a member of EU-DG ECFIN High Level Advisory Group in Brussels.

He is Strategic Board Member of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) and a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network. He is also Research Fellow of the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), London and CESifo (Center of Economic Studies ), Munich.

Previous positions include President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Chair of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, an initiative of the World Bank, OECD and UNEP, and, for more than twenty years, Scientific Director of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).

He has written about 40 books and over 300 articles on environmental economics, climate change, international environmental agreements, fiscal and monetary policy coordination, coalition theory, economic and econometric modelling.

His blog is www.carlocarraro.org.