Sebastian Kind is RELP´s CEO & Chairman. RELP is a non-profit organisation aimed at scaling up cheaper and faster renewable energy deployment in emerging economies.
Sebastian was the Undersecretariat of Renewable Energy of Argentina (2016-2017), and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (2018-2019), he was responsible for the country’s energy transition toward a cleaner matrix. He is the architect and primary driver of the innovative RenovAr program, which has resulted in over US$ 11 and 8.7 GW in clean energy investments since its launch in 2016.

He is the founding director of the Master of Science in Renewable Energy Program at National Technological University (UTN), and played an instrumental role in working with Argentina’s National Senate as author of the Renewable Energy National Law.

In 2017, Sebastián worked with Harvard University in setting up RenovAr as a Case Study due to its outstanding achievements. 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 and commitment to promoting a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.

In 2019, he received the Clean Energy Award of the Latin American and Caribbean Council on Renewable Energy (LAC- CORE) and the Climate Breakthrough Project award (an initiative of the Packard Foundation with the support of the Oak, Good Energies, and IKEA Foundations); a prize for developing Greenmap (Global Renewable Energy Mass Adoption Program); a breakthrough strategy to help deploying renewables at a global scale. Sebastian has also received in 2019 the LIDE award of the year in recognition of his contribution to the Energy sector.