Sebastian Kind

Sebastian Alejandro Kind (born 1979) is an Argentinian engineer in the field of renewable energy. He is a policy maker, advisor and awarded public official who served as Undersecretary of Renewable Energy at the Ministry of Energy in Argentina between 2016 and 2019, from where he led the country's energy transition towards a cleaner matrix through a successful and innovative program named RenovAr. In 2018 he was appointed as Chair of the Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Career and education
Kind is a mechanical engineer from the National Technological University of Buenos Aires (Argentina).

In 2010 he founded the MS in Renewable Energy at the National Technological University (Argentina) and served as the director until 2017.

Between 2013 and 2015, he performed as advisor to the Senate and drafted Act 27,191, that was unanimously approved by Congress. This law set the policy framework and objectives that he is currently putting in practice as a government official.

Throughout the course of his tenure as Undersecretary of Renewable Energy he was responsible for the drafting of the entire regulatory framework for renewables including the RenovAr program, the FODER trust fund and the PPA regulation, among others. During Argentina's G20 presidency in 2018, he co-led the first Forum on renewable energy and energy efficiency at the Energy Transitions Working Group (ETWG) meetings in Buenos Aires. Kind earned MS in Renewable Energy from the EUREC Agency in Brussels (Belgium)/ NTUA in Athens (Greece)/University of Zaragoza (Spain).

Awards and fellowships
In 2018 he was appointed as Chair of the Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and was selected as Fellow of the Eisenhower Foundation (EF) in Philadelphia and as Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva in recognition of his accomplishments. In 2019, he received the Clean Energy Award of the Latin American and Caribbean Council on Renewable Energy (LAC- CORE) and the Climate Breakthrough Award (an initiative of the Packard Foundation with the support of the Oak, Good Energies, and IKEA Foundations) for developing GREENMAP (Global Renewable Energy Mass Adoption Program).

Personal life
Kind lives in Buenos Aires with his wife and two children.