Kevin de Cuba joined the Department for Sustainable Development (DSD) of the Organization of American States in March 2005. He is born on the beautiful island of Aruba (Dutch Caribbean) and lived for many years in the Netherlands and in Portugal before moving to the United States.

In 2003 he received his BSc. (Honors) degree in Environmental Technology with specialization in Waste Management and Waste Water Treatment from the Van Hall Institute, Wageningen University of Applied Sciences, in the Netherland. In 2006 he secured his MSc. degree in Sustainable Development with specialization in Energy & Resources from the Copernicus Institute at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is fluent in English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Papiamento, and has working knowledge in German and French.

Mr. de Cuba is involved as Project/Program Manager and Sustainable Development Specialist leading or involved with several interdisciplinary projects regarding themes as energy, water, sustainable consumption and production, cradle-to-cradle, and climate change mitigation and adaptation within the DSD.

He is currently the project manager of the ECPA Caribbean Initiative where he is responsible as principle lead for the implementation of project activities including providing short-term legal counsel and technical assistance to 15 Caribbean States (Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, the Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago) on clean energy projects, and support dialogue on possible sub-sea electrical interconnections as an alternative to address long-term Caribbean energy security challenges. Furthermore he is the Project Manager of the Low Carbon Communities in the Caribbean (LCCC) Project, working closely in collaboration with U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with focus on organizing technical training workshops, resource assessments, energy auditing training and application, provide technical due diligence for renewable energy project evaluation, RE/EE market analysis and elaborate technical cooperation agreements with several Caribbean nations.

As the Program Manager of the Closed Looped Cycle Production in the Americas, he is pioneering the introduction of the Cradle-to-Cradle design philosophy in the Americas. He is currently implementing a sub-component of this initiative in Ecuador under the title “Closed Looped Cycle Production in Ecuador”. This is a project in partnership with the Ministry of Production, Employment and Competitiveness (MCPEC) of Ecuador to introduce and validate the “cradle-to-cradle” or C2C concept as an innovative business development tool to increase the productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of businesses in the production sector of Ecuador, with particular focus on Small and Mediums size Enterprises (SMEs).

Over the past years he has been critical to the design and development of among other, the Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative (GSEII), the Eastern Caribbean Geothermal Energy Project (Geo-Caraïbes), the US-Brazil Biofuels Initiative, the Renewable Energy Initiative in the Americas (REIA), the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP), and the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA).