Elvio Baccarini is born in Rijeka (Croatia) on September 3rd, 1961. He has studied in Trieste (Italy) and obtained a BA degree with a thesis on the political philosophy of J.S. Mill. In 1992 he obtained an MA at the University of Zagreb with a thesis on moral epistemology. He obtained a PhD degree (University of Trieste) in 1997 with a thesis on moral realism.

His first working academic experience was at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zadar (Croatia), where he was employed as a researcher on the project Morality and Rationality of Conflicts. He has cooperated in teaching Theory of Law and State at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka and Philanthropy at the Faculty of Education Sciences (now Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) in Rijeka. From 2000 he is employed at the University of Rijeka, where he is now Full Professor. From 2004 to 2009 he has been the Dean, and now he is the President of the Honor Board of the University of Rijeka. He is one of the authors of the Code of Ethics of the University of Rijeka. From 2004 to 2007 he has been the President of the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy. He has been the executive editor of “Croatian Journal of Philosophy”, and curerntly he is member of the Editorial Board of "European Journal of Analytic Philosophy" and "Etica e politica", as well as a member of the Advisory Board of "Prolegomena".

In 2008, both the City Council of Rijeka and the Foundation of the University of Rijeka awarded him the “Award of the City of Rijeka”.

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