Carlos Duarte is a Professor of Marine Science and the Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology. He is a world-wide leader in multiple branches of biological oceanography and marine ecology.

Prof. Duarte has previously held faculty positions in the University of Western Australia, where he was the Director of the UWA Oceans Institute in Australia and the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) in Spain. He was adjunct faculty in University of Trømso in Norway and King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Limnology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.