Curriculum Vitae

Short Bio

Professor Carlo Carraro is President (Rector) Emeritus and 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. Previously, he was Director of the Department of Economics from 2006 to 2008 and Vice-Provost for Research Management and Policy from 2001 to 2005.

From 2008 to 2023, he was 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.

Professor Carraro is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). In 2020 he has been elected a Member of the Academia Europaea. He is also a Fulbright scholar.

He was President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) for the biennium 2018-2019 and member of the Council from 2016 to 2020.

Recently, he chaired the Committee on Climate Change and Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility of the Italian Ministry for Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility and belonged to the Advisory Board (Struttura Tecnica di Missione) of the same Ministry. He was also a member of the High Level Advisory Group of DG ECFIN in Brussels.

Presently, he is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) and chairs the Advisory Board of H-Farm College.

He is also a Research Fellow of the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), London and CESifo (Center of Economic Studies ), Munich, and Associate Research Fellow, CEPS (Center of Economic Policy Studies ), Bruxelles.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of:

• Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin;
• Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)
• Green Budget Europe (GBE), Brussels;
• Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, (CAMA), Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University;
• The European Roundtable on Climate and Sustainable Transition (ERCST), an initiative of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
• Fondazione Venezia Capitale Mondiale della Sostenibilità
• Energy Centre, Polytechnic of Turin;
• Master Program in Product Service System Design at Politecnico di Milano.

He also belongs to the the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network and to the Climate Governance Stakeholder and Expert Group at the European University Institute.

For more than twenty years, he was Scientific Director of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and, from 2009 to 2017, he was also Director of the International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG). From 2013 to 2019 he was Co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), a joint initiative of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the OECD, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Bank. He also chaired the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment in Milan (2019-2022).

He worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the European Investment Bank and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Generali Group and of the Advisory Board of Fondo di Investimento Italiano. He also belonged to the Board of Directors of Banca Popolare di Vicenza, the National School of Public Administration (SNA) and the Fondazione Studium Marcianum (FSM). He is presently a member of the Board of Directors of AFV Beltrame Group.

In 2007, he was elected Resident Member of the Academy “Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti” and in 2010 of the Academy “Ateneo Veneto” in Venice.

In 2009, he was awarded the Sustainable Energy Prize by the Italian Association of Energy Economists. In 2011, he was awarded the Melvin Jones Fellowship by the Lions International, and in 2014 the Paul Harris Fellowship by the Rotary International.

In 2013, he was awarded the honor of Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana on the initiative of the President of Italy.

From 2005 to 2017, Professor Carraro was the Co-editor and then Editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP), one of the most important economics journals (under his guidance, REEP became one of the top 3 economics journals and one of the top 5 environmental studies journals). From 2017 to 2020 he was the Director of the PhD Program in Science and Management of Climate Change, a joint program of the University of Venice, CMCC and OGS. Other 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.

In recent years he covered other important positions: Scientific Director, Fondazione Nord Est (2018-2021), President, Venice Research District (2012-2014); Director, Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the EuroMediterranean Centre on Climate Change (2005-2013); Member of the Scientific Committee of the UN International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP) (2011-2014); Executive Board Member of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (2009-2014) and of the Italian Society for Climate Sciences (2011-2015); Co-Chair of the National Inter-Ministerial Committee on Decarbonisation (2016); Member of the Osservatorio Italiano sulla Finanza Sostenibile, Ministry of the Environment (2018-2019).

Professor Carraro has a proven record of accomplishment and international recognition in many relevant fields. He has written more than 300 papers and about 40 books on the international coordination of monetary policy, the coordination between monetary and fiscal policy, coalitions and group formation in economic systems, international negotiations and the formation of international environmental agreements, monetary and fiscal problems in open economies, monetary policy coordination in Europe, the econometric modelling of integrated economies, dynamic modelling of climate-economy interactions, sustainable development.

His current research focuses on climate policy both at the domestic and international level. He studies both long-term and short-term impacts of adaptation and mitigation policies and evaluates their costs and benefits using a wide range of integrated assessment models.

In 2016, Prof. Carraro was awarded the Literary Award “Parco della Maiella” for the book “Il clima che cambia”.

Present Positions

President (Rector) Emeritus, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

Professor of Environmental Economics, Department of Environmental Sciences, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

Past President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).

Chair, Advisory Board, H-Farm College, Italy

Member, Academia Europaea and Resident Member of the Academy “Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti” and of the Academy “Ateneo Veneto” in Venice.

Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).

Associate Research Fellow and member of the Carbon Market Forum Advisory Board, CEPS (Center of Economic Policy Studies), Brussels, Belgium (www.ceps.eu).

Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, UK (www.cepr.eu) and of the Center of Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich, Germany (www.cesifo-group.de).

Member of:

• Senior Advisory Group of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)
• World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network, Geneva;
• Strategic Board, EuroMediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC), Italy;
• Expert Advisory Board, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin.
• Advisory Board, Fondazione Venezia Capitale Mondiale della Sostenbilità
• Climate Governance Stakeholder and Expert Group, European University Institute, Florence

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of:

• Green Budget Europe, Brussels
• Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, (CAMA), Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;
• The European Roundtable on Climate and Sustainable Transition (ERCST), an initiative of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
• Energy Centre, Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy
• Master in Product Service System Design at Politecnico di Milano.

Fellowships and Honors

2020          Member, Academia Europaea

2020          Fellow, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)

2016          Fellow, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)

2016          Literary Award “Parco della Maiella” for the book “Il clima che cambia”

2014          Paul Harris Fellow, the Rotary International

2013          Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana on the initiative of the President of Italy

2011          Melvin Jones Fellow, the Lions International

2010          Resident Member of the Academy “Ateneo Veneto” in Venice.

2009          Sustainable Energy Prize, Italian Association of Energy Economists (IAEE)

2007          Resident Member of the Academy “Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti”

1982          Fulbright Fellowship

1981          Interbancaria Fellowship, Milano.

Education

Past academic positions

2017 – 2020           Director, Ph.D. Program on “Science and Management of Climate Change” at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

2018 – 2019           President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)

2015 – 2017           Board Member, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)

2009 –  2014          President, University of Venice

President, Ca’ Foscari University Foundation

President, Ca’ Foscari International College

Board Member, Venice International University

2012 – 2014           President, Venice Research District

Vice-President, Italian Society for Climate Sciences (SISC)

Board Member, Italian Association for Environmental and Resource Economics (IAERE)

2010 – 2014           President, International Center for Tourism Economics

2006 – 2008           Chairman, Department of Economics, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice.

2001 – 2005           Vice-Provost for Research Management and Policy, University  of Venice.

2004 – 2005           Chairman of the University Committee for Research Quality   Valuation (VTR), Venice

2002 – 2005           Member of the Board of the Inter-University Nanotechnology Consortium (CIVEN).

Fall 2003               Visiting Professor, LATAPSES, CNRS and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France).

Spring 1998           Visiting Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Paris X, Paris (France).

Fall 1997               Visiting Professor of Environmental Economics, GREQAM, Université de la Mediterranée, Marseille (France).

Fall 1996               Visiting Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Paris I, Paris (France)

Spring 1996           Professor at the International Master on Environmental Economics, Maich, Chania (Greece).

Spring 1995           Visiting Professor of Environmental Economics, LATAPSES and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France)

1992 – 1994            Professor of Economics, MBA Program, Clemson University, Pordenone (Italy)

Fall 1993 – 1994     Visiting Professor of Environmental Economics, GREQAM, University of Aix en Provence/Marseille II (France)

Nov. 1990 – 1993   Professor of Econometrics, Departments of Economics, University of Udine, (Italy).

Fall 1991               Visiting Professor of Labour Economics, Université de Paris I, Paris (France)

Fall 1989 – 1990     Visiting Professor of Econometrics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France).

Fall 1989               Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, University College of London (U.K.).

Nov. 1987- 1990    Associate Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Venice (Italy)

1987-1989             Professor at the Summer School of Econometrics, Bagni di Lucca, (Italy).

Fall 1987-1989       Visiting Professor of International Macroeconomics, University of Aix en Provence-Marseille II and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Marseille (France).

Spring 1987           Professor of Industrial Organization, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS), Rome (Italy).

Fall 1986               Visiting Professor of Game Theory, Centre d’Economie Mathématique, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (France).

Nov. 1983-1987     Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Venice (Italy)