The founder and Chief Executive Officer of re:char, Jason Aramburu is a great force to reckon with in the field of social entrepreneurship. At the age of 27, he has built and distributed carbon-negative power plants that generate energy from wastes and replenishes soil in farming villages in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

A graduate of Princeton University, as a cum laude with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Aramburu has obtained extensive research experience in both laboratory and field areas, and has spent significant time working and studying in Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative and at the Republic of Panama’s Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. 

The young social entrepreneur has received countless prestigious accolades including being named as one of Business Week’s 2010 Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs in America and Hitachi Foundation’s Yoshiyama Young Entrepreneur. Aramburu believes that rural poverty and climate change are two of the world’s greatest challenges and has dedicated his life to taking part in solving them.