Armando Carbonell is Chairman of the Department of Planning and Urban Form at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The department is generally concerned with three themes: spatial externalities and multi-jurisdictional governance, the interplay of public and private interests in the use of land, and land policy and the environment. He also teaches in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Prior to his appointment to the Lincoln Institute in 1999, Carbonell had been Executive Director of the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning and land use regulatory agency. In 1986, he initiated Prospect: Cape Cod, the strategic planning project that led to the 1989 passage of the Cape Cod Commission Act. During 1992-1993, he held a Loeb Fellowship in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He chaired the National Academy of Sciences panel on groundwater vulnerability in 1991-1992. Carbonell received his A.B. degree in geography from Clark University and was a Doctoral Fellow in geography at the Johns Hopkins University.