Carlo Carraro

Carlo Carraro (born May 17, 1957, in Italy) is the Chancellor of the University of Venice for the three-year period 2009-2012, with a two-year extension of his mandate in accordance to the Gelmini University Law bringing it up to summer 2014. He is also professor of Environmental Economics at the same University. He is Director of the Sustainable Development Programme of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC). In 2008, Carlo Carraro was elected Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Carlo Carraro holds a Laurea degree in Economics from the University of Venice and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University (USA).

Professor Carraro studies in the field of environmental economics, specifically, researching the evaluation of climate change mitigation and adaptation policy. He is one of the authors of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC and he collaborated with the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, with the OECD and with World Bank.

Past academic positions include teaching at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, LUISS in Rome, University of Udine, University of Aix-en-Provence, University of Nice, University of Paris X, and at the Clemson University MBA School. He has been Vice-Provost for Research Management and Policy at Ca’ Foscari University (2000–2006) and chairman of the Department of Economics (2005–2008).

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