Connor Raso
SVP, Global Head of Accounting Standards Development and Co-Director of the Technical Expert Panel
Connor Raso joined Carbon Measures in January 2026 after more than 15 years shaping the development and implementation of financial regulatory standards. He brings deep expertise across auditing, corporate governance, regulatory practice, and carbon accounting. At Carbon Measures, Connor leads the technical advancement of a ledger-based carbon accounting framework designed to bring rigor, consistency, and credibility to carbon emissions data.
Throughout his career, Connor has played leading roles in shaping institutional approaches to regulatory compliance and standard-setting. Most recently, he served as Acting General Counsel of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, where he led a 30-attorney team and advised on complex standard-setting initiatives. His work focused on building durable legal frameworks – particularly around data governance and regulatory integrity.
Connor has also held senior legal roles at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In those positions, he provided strategic statutory, regulatory, and rulemaking advisory and analysis at the intersection of law, policy, and market oversight.
His experience informs a core belief that now guides his work at Carbon Measures: the same rigor and principles that underpin financial accounting can – and must – be applied to carbon accounting.
Connor is an active member of the American Law Institute and has taught at Georgetown University and Fordham University Law Schools. He has been a frequent contributor to the Brookings Institution's Series on Regulatory Process and Perspective through the Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets. From 2017 to 2022, he served as a voting member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, where he chaired the Committee on Regulation.
Connor holds a B.S.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University. He is driven by the conviction that clear standards and disciplined compliance can make global, ledger-based carbon accounting work at scale – unlocking market innovation and competition while accelerating real climate progress.
