Corell is principal for the Global Environment & Technology Foundation, an ambassador for ClimateWorks Foundation, professor II at the University of the Arctic's new Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry, a professor II at the University of Tromso in Norway, and director of the Sarasota, Florida-based Climate Adaptation Center (CAC).
He joined the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in 2006 as vice president for programs and policy (until January 2010).
completed an appointment that began in January 2000 as a senior research fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Corell has been quoted in the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Golf Digest, CBS News' 60 Minutes, and many additional public media outlets such as Skavlan.
He co-chairs an international strategic planning group that is developing a strategy designed to harness science, technology, and innovation for sustainable development; serves as the chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment; counsels as senior science advisor to ManyOne.Net; and is chair of the board of the Digital Universe Foundation.