Professor of Environmental Economics Vice-Chair, IPCC Working Group III
Professor Carlo Carraro is President of the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, where he is also Professor of Environmental Economics and Econometrics and President of the Ca’ Foscari University Foundation.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (1985) from Princeton University. Past academic positions include teaching at the University of Paris I, LUISS in Rome, University of Udine, University of Aix-en-Provence, and University of Paris X. He has been Vice Provost for Research Management and Policy of Ca’ Foscari University (2003-2006) and Chairman of the Department of Economics (2005-2008).
Professor Carraro is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC). In 2008, he has been elected Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and member of the Bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has been working as IPCC Lead Author since 1995. He is also Director of the International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG). He is member of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) Advisory Committee, the International Advisory Board of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at Australian National University, the ENI Energy Research Award in Rome. He belongs to the Mitigation Board of the Global Climate Solutions Network (GNCS) at Columbia University's Earth Institute. In 2007, he was elected Resident Member of the Academy “Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Letteree Arti” and of the Academy “Ateneo Veneto” in Venice. He is also Research Fellow of the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), London, and CESifo (Center of Economic Studies ), Munich, Germany, and Associate Research Fellow of CEPS (Center of Economic Policy Studies ), Bruxelles, Belgium. He belongs to the Consiglio Generale of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and he is President of the International Center for Tourism Economics (CISET).
Professor Carraro has a proven track record and international recognition in many relevant fields. He is co-editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and belongs to the editorial board of numerous academic journals. He has written more than 200 papers and 30 books on economic, energy and environmental issues. He has recently been awarded the sustainable Energy Prize by the Italian Association of Energy Economists.