Carlo Ángeles works at the intersection of biodiversity, governance, and economic innovation, designing global institutional and investment architectures to advance regenerative development and climate action at scale. He has held influential roles at the World Economic Forum Expert Taskforce on Nature Positive Cities, the Andean Parliament High-Level Working Group for the Amazon—where his work translating science into policy led to the international Amazon Emergency Declaration and the formal recognition of ecological tipping points—and C Minds, where he currently serves as Director of Impact.

Carlo is the Inaugural Fellow of the Science Panel for the Amazon, a member of the Peruvian Government’s National Climate Change Commission and a Board Member of the International Youth Foundation. As a Three Cairns Fellow at the Yale School of the Environment, he developed the framework Nature as Critical Infrastructure — a thesis that reframes ecosystems not as externalities, but as the foundational systems underpinning economic stability, and institutional legitimacy. From this premise follows a clear conclusion: 21st-century crises cannot be solved with 20th-century institutions. A new economic grammar is required — one in which capital, nature, and democracy reinforce one another rather than unravel together. His work positions nature not as a cost center, but as the foundation of long-term resilience and shared prosperity.

As a former Metropolitan City Councilor in Lima, he led the city’s climate legislation agenda and spearheaded its largest reforestation plan. He is a Democracy Innovator of the 21st Century recognized by the Athens Democracy Forum in association with The New York Times, has been recognized by the National Parliament of Peru, and is a recipient of the Global Democracy Awards from the Washington Academy of Political Arts and Sciences.

Carlo frequently authors op-eds for Infobae and El Comercio.

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