Pedro Valle Carlo

Who is Pedro Valle Carlo?

Dr. Pedro Valle Carlo, is a retired college professor and noted environmentalist leader based in western Puerto Rico.

Pedro Valle Carlo was born in Santurce. His mother was Blanca Carlo and his father Pedro Valle Bonilla. He was raised in Cabo Rojo, attending the local public grammar school and high school.

Valle Carlo enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez as a civil engineering major in 1962. He soon changed majors to management. He earned his degree in 1966. After graduation, he married Dafne Javier Montalvo, whom he had met at a local social event. Valle Carlo then moved on to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras while Javier Montalvo worked on her own graduate degree in psychology at the same institution.

After graduation, the couple first moved to Spain and then to New York City to pursue doctoral studies. Valle Carlo earned a PhD in labor management from New York University in 1984.

From 1976 to 1995, Valle Carlo was a professor at the Business Administration department of the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. In 1995, he was named director of the graduate program at his alma mater in Mayagüez. He retired from active academics in 2005.