Carlo Carraro is President Emeritus and Professor of 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 and President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) in 2018-2019. He is a member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and of the Strategic Board of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC). He is also President of the National Committee on Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures and Mobility and a member of DG ECFIN High Level Advisory Group in Brussels.

He is also a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network and a Research Fellow of CEPR, London, CESifo, Munich and CEPS, Brussels.