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). 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. Kind also received in 2019 the LIDE award of the year in recognition to his contribution to the Energy sector. study Career and education Sebastian Kind is a mechanical engineer from the National Technological University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He began his career in the renewable energy sector, specifically in the wind power area, working first for BP in London and then at the Joint venture of BP/Bridas in Argentina as Head of Alternative Energy. In 2010 he founded the MS in Renewable Energy at the National Technological University (Argentina) and was its Director until 2017. In this regard he claimed that "Argentina has to diversify its energy mix and the renewable energy is one of the pathways for such diversification [...] The aim is to train professionals that will become leaders in the local industry". 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. In May 2018, he was appointed Chair of the Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Kind also earned an 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