Carla Duss studied International Relations and International Economic Relations at the University of Geneva and the Geneva Graduate Institute. She also completed an Executive Master in Public Administration at the University of Bern in 2021. From 2006 to 2011, she worked in economic research at UBS. She then moved to the Lucerne University of Teacher Education in 2011 as a research associate, where she has been co-head of the University Development Department since September 2018.
Carla Duss served as co-president of «actionuni – der Schweizer Mittelbau» from 2015 to 2017. She has been a member of the Swiss Accreditation Council since January 2019.