Sebastian Rink

As expert for green and sustainable finance, Sebastian advises financial institutions on the operationalisation of sustainable finance and governments on sustainable financial related policy measures. Recent projects involve the analysis of several European countries’ financial market regulations for compliance with the Paris climate goals under the 3fP-Tracker.com framework, the first larger scale pilot of the EU Ecolabel for financial products and the development of a technical toolkit to advise commercial banks on implementing climate commitments. Sebastian has contributed to the development of the EU Taxonomy as an additional expert to the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. He is currently involved in outreach to the German industry on the EU Taxonomy and develops solutions to operationalise the EU Taxonomy at funds, banks and SMEs in the real economy.

Before joining the FS-UNEP Centre, Sebastian has gained experience in private equity as part of Allianz Global Investors’ transaction services team for a renewable energy projects.

He has further successfully completed a talent programme on corporate finance in the German aviation industry and was awarded the MSc in Carbon Finance from the University of Edinburgh Business School with an academic excellence certificate and holds a BSc in International Business Administration from the Frankfurt School.