Carlo Carraro

Carlo Carraro

Carlo Carraro (born May 17, 1957, in Italy) is Professor of environmental and climate economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He holds a PhD from Princeton University. He was the rector of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014. 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). He was re-elected for a second term in 2015. He chairs the National Committee on Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures and Mobility established by the Italian Ministry for Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility. He belongs to the EU-DG ECFIN High Level Advisory Group and he is Strategic Board Member of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC).

Education

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

Career

Carlo Carraro is President (Rector) Emeritus and Professor of Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He was President of the University of Venice from 2009 to 2014 and Director of the Department of Economics from 2005 to 2008. He was also President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) and Chair of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, an initiative of the World Bank, OECD and UNEP. Since 2008 he is Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN organization in charge of climate change assessments. He worked as an IPCC Lead Author since 1995. For more than twenty years, he was Scientific Director of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and, from 2009, Director of the International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG). He is now a member of the Executive Board of the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE). He is also Chair of the National Committee on Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures and Mobility established by the Italian Ministry for Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility. He belongs to the EU-DG ECFIN High Level Advisory Group, he is Strategic Board Member of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network and a Fulbright scholar. He is also 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. In 2020 he has been elected a member of the Academia Europaea. He worked as a consultant to the World Bank and to the Economic and Social Research Institute, Government of Japan. He has been awarded the Melvin Jones Fellowship by the Lions International and the Paul Harris Fellowship by the Rotary International. He has written about 40 books and more than 300 articles on the international coordination of monetary policy, international negotiations and the formation of international environmental agreements, dynamic modelling of climate-economy interactions, sustainable development, climate policy. His blog is www.carlocarraro.org .

Research interests

Professor Carraro's research interests cover the following fields: climate change economics, coalition and network formation, analysis of international economic and climate agreements, the link between trade and the environment, development of advanced integrated climate economy models, empirical modelling of technological change, and assessment of the costs and benefits of greenhouse gases mitigation policies.

Publications

Professor Carraro has written more than 300 papers and 40 books on climate economics, mitigation of climate change, monetary policy coordination in Europe, international negotiations and the formation of international economic coalitions, the effects of fiscal policies on oligopolistic markets, the econometric modelling of integrated economies, the econometric valuation of environmental policies to control global warming and further issues related to climate change policies, the dynamics of international environmental agreements, international locations industry and trade flows, global governance, coalition theory.

External links

• Prof. Carraro web page