Carlo Carraro was born in Camposampiero, Italy, in 1957. He began his studies in economics at the University of Warwick, Great Britain, in 1980 and obtained his Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University, in the USA, in 1985. Professor Carlo Carraro is currently chairman of the Department of Economics and Professor of Econometrics and Environmental Economics at the University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice, Italy. He is director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change and member of the board of directors of the European Climate Forum. He belongs to the High-Level Network of Environmental Economists set up by the European Environmental Agency and he is a consultant to the World Bank. Current research interests cover the issue of coalition and network formation, the analysis of international economic agreements, the link between trade and the environment, the development of advanced integrated climate economy models, the analysis of climate policy, the empirical modeling of technological change, and the assessment of the costs and benefits of greenhouse gases stabilization policies.

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