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.