Sebastian Copeland

At-a-Glance

Named one of the 'Top 25 Adventurers of the Last 25 Years' by Men's Journal in 2017.
Serves as Brand Ambassador for ZEISS Group (since 2022) and AUDI AG (since 2021).
Founder and CEO of SEDNA Foundation (since 2011) and co-founder of Artists for Amazonia (2009).
Set a world record for the longest distance traveled over 24 hours (595 km) while kite-skiing 2,300 km across Greenland.
Authored six monograms, including the polar trilogy: 'The Arctic: A Darker Shade of White' (2024), 'Polar Expeditions' (2022), and 'Antarctica: The Waking Giant' (2020), published by Rizzoli.
Served 15 years on the Board of Directors of President Gorbachev's environmental NGO Global Green USA.
Graduated from UCLA in 1987.

Biography

Sebastian Copeland is a British-American-French polar explorer, climate analyst, fine art photographer, author, lecturer, and environmental advocate. Since 2000, Copeland has focused his work on climate change, leading numerous expeditions to photograph and film endangered environments in the polar regions. He is a fellow of The Explorers Club and a member of the International Glaciology Society and the American Polar Society.