Nathan has over 40 years of experience in the �elds of interna-tional development and education. He is one of the sta� found-ers of Oxfam America supporting emerging community devel-opment leadership in low income countries and has been a pioneer in socially positive investment. Nathan started the youth leadership organization Earth Train Foundation in 1991 and, in 2001, led the establishment of its international base in Panama where he co-founded the Mamoní Valley Preserve with Colin Wiel and family and founded Fundación Earth Train, now Fundación Geoversity. Together with Verne Harnish, he directed the launch of the Geoversity ecosystem with its annual The Nature of Business executive events, as well as Geoversity's “designing with Nature” and “Life Changer” initiatives. He was a contributing author of Disaster and Development (Fred Cuny) published in 1989 by Oxford University Press and a contributing author of Change Not Charity - Essays on Oxfam America’s First 40 Years, published in 2010.

Verne is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organi-zation (EO), with over 14,000 members worldwide, and chaired for �fteen years EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants” held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today. Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 150 partners on six conti-nents, Verne has spent the past three decades helping compa-nies scaleup. He’s the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which is translated into 9 languages; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times," for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. His latest book Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) has won eight major international book awards including the pres-tigious International Book Award for Best General Business book. Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summit in collabo-ration with Bloomberg and serves on several other boards

Educational background: BA in International Relations from the University of California, San Francisco and completed special studies in literature at the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico; Universidad de Zarago-za, Spain; and Université de Toulouse en Pau, France.

including vice-chair of The Riordan Clinic. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Educational background: Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Wichita State University.

Since 2001, Lider has been a full time environmentalist, �rst as Executive Director of Panama’s National Association for the Conservation of Nature (ANCON), playing a key role in initia-tives such as the creation of Coiba as a National Park by law. Between 2007 and 2010 Lider was the Executive Director of the then-in-construction Biomuseo. Lider became Executive Co-Di-rector of Earth Train, with programs centered at Centro Mamoní and the Mamoní Valley Preserve. Since 2011, he has been Regional Director for Latin America of Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC), a global pioneer in the development of private sector climate change mitigation projects. In September of 2015, Lider was elected to the global Board of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as delegate for the Meso-american region. Lider is an avid naturalist, scuba diver, and a certi�ed nature guide. Lider’s initial experience was as a manag-

After more than 50 years in energy and environmental matters, Steve retired in 2005 from Lawrence Berkeley National Labora-tory, where he headed the Energy and Environmental Technol-ogy Division's Energy Analysis Department. He has provided technical assistance in greenhouse gas mitigation to develop-ing countries and served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy. He is the Chairman of CLASP, an international non-pro�t corporation that stimulates the use of energy e�ciency standards worldwide, on the Board of the American Council for an Energy E�cient Economy and of the Global Cool Cities Alliance, Mamoní 100, and LEVYdance. Steve was a Public Service Commissioner and owned an energy and environmen-tal planning �rm in Reno where he was also an Engineering Professor at the University of Nevada. He began his career in the aerospace industry designing systems for the Apollo

er of industrial maintenance to the Panama Canal. After that he became a management consultant in both Boston (U.S.) and Panama.Author of the Guatemala Chapter of the “Let’s Go Central America” 1997 travel guide. Currently he is also a board member of the Biomuseo, the Panama Audubon Society, the Harvard Club of Panama, and ANCON.

Educational background: MBA from Harvard Business School

mission, satellite launches and reentry vehicles. Since 2014 he has been overseeing his family’s involve-ment in the Mamoní Valley Preserve and has a signi�cant role in the Mamoní 100 Membership Club. Educational background: BA and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International A�airs.

David is a Sales & Marketing Strategist, entrepreneur, and best-selling author of ten books. No one knows more about using the new Real-Time tools and strategies to spread ideas, in�uence minds and build a sustainable business. He has spoken on all seven continents and in 40 countries to audiences of the most respected �rms and organizations. David is author or co-author of ten books - three are international bestsellers, best known for “The New Rules of Marketing & PR”, now in its 6th edition, and translated into 29 languages and is a modern business classic with over 400,000 copies sold so far. He is co-author of “Market-ing the Moon” (with Rich Jurek) and “Marketing Lessons from The Grateful Dead” (with HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan). David is co-founder and Partner in Signature Tones, a sonic branding studio, creating sonic logos and original music for use by organi-zations in their branding e�orts. Sonic branding includes origi-nal music that people use in videos, podcasts, products and services, as walk on music for speaking engagements.

Carolyn is the Brand Campaign Manager of HubSpot, the fast-growing developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing and sales. Before joining the company last year, she co-founded The Good Ones, an organization rede�n-ing social networking, and other cutting-edge social network and brand marketing initiatives. For all her adult life she has been involved in fundraising in favor of underprivileged groups; with Horizon for Homeless Children, Never Ever Give Up, Scleroderma Foundation, Boston Gives and the Harvard University & Harvard Graduate School of Education Alumnus run mental health care Center For Family Connections. She served on the board of several of these and has been the plan-ner of several large events including for the nonpro�t Venture Capital & Private Equity, MassChallenge. Being an avid outdoors explorer she joined David Meerman Scott as the guest producer of Geoversity’s historic Trans Continental Expe-

Educational background: BA in economics from Kenyon College (1983).

dition in February, 2019. Educational background: BA in Economics, College of the Holy Cross and Coursework at Harvard Business School: Social Networking Platforms, e-commerce, International Marketing and Branding.

Besides being a board member, TJ is the new CEO of Fundación Geoversity and a founding sta� member the overall Geoversity ecosystem. He is still the President and Board Member of Inova-teus Solar. Driven by the Inovateus pledge to “Build A Brilliant Tomorrow” he has been instrumental in developing a world-class solar team that has successfully deployed solar energy projects and products internationally. Under his leader-ship, Inovateus has been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in Indiana” by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce in 2014 and 2016. TJ was recently invited to the White House to participate in a special brie�ng on clean energy and also received the 2016 “Outstanding Young Business Leader” award by the St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce. Among his business and community awards, TJ was honored as a 2013 “Forty Under 40” recipient for northern Indiana and southwest Michigan. Before starting his own career at Inovateus, TJ

For the past decade, David, together with his colleagues at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University, has taught the next generation of Bill Gates and Mark Zucker-berg how to create disruptive innovations. His keynotes share those insights and, through entertaining real world examples, he helps leaders and frontline innovators understand how to develop disruptive innovation in their organizations. His inno-vations have been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News as well as ESPN, and Smithsonian Innovation and Popular Science. He has held appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology (MIT), Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and North Carolina State University. His work has been recognized in numerous scienti�c journals and popular science outlets.

Educational background: PhD from Harvard University Harvard

worked for General Growth Properties in Chicago.

Educational background: BA in Business Management from Columbia College (Chicago – 2004).

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Shea Welsh is a guitarist, songwriter and producer. His ability to move freely through any genre has made him share the stage with musicians from The Edge, U2, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police, Heatwave, Peaches & Herb, John Taylor, and Duran Duran. Among many productions Shea recorded his �rst Blujazz project “Arrival” in 2017, but has also produced for The Hipnotics', Michelle Coltrane, The Jane Carrey Band and emerg-ing artists My Serenity and Chris Monaghan. He has performed at several festivals, including three times at the Panama Jazz Festival and The Miami Beach Jazz Festival with Michelle Coltrane, to whom he is a co-writer, studio musician and musi-cal director for her touring band. As an educator, Shea runs The Shea Welsh Institute of Jazz at The Conservatory of Performing Arts and he is a USC Thornton School of Music Studio/Jazz Guitar faculty member. Shea is a concerned environmentalist and philanthropist, proven through his work with Geoversity since the early days of Earth Train in Panama.

Educational background: BA in Jazz and Commercial Music (Towson University, Baltimore), MA in Studio/-Jazz Guitar (University of Southern California Thornton School of Music).

For the past decade, David, together with his colleagues at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University, has taught the next generation of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg how to create disruptive innovations. His keynotes share those insights and, through entertaining real world examples, he helps leaders and frontline innovators understand how to develop disruptive innovation in their organizations. His innovations have been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News as well as ESPN, and Smithsonian Innovation and Popular Science. He has held appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and North Carolina State University. His work has been recognized in numerous scienti�c journals and popular science outlets.

Shea Welsh is a guitarist, songwriter and producer. His ability to move freely through any genre has made him share the stage with musicians from The Edge, U2, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police, Heatwave, Peaches & Herb, John Taylor, and Duran Duran. Among many productions Shea recorded his �rst Blujazz project “Arriv-al” in 2017, but has also produced for The Hipnotics', Michelle Coltrane, The Jane Carrey Band and emerging artists My Serenity and Chris Monaghan. He has performed at several festivals, including three times at the Panama Jazz Festival and The Miami Beach Jazz Festi-val with Michelle Coltrane, to whom he is a co-writer, studio musician and musical director for her touring band. As an educator, Shea runs The Shea Welsh Institute of Jazz at The Conservatory of Performing Arts and he is a USC Thornton School of Music Studio/Jazz Guitar faculty member. Shea is a concerned environmentalist and

Educational background: PhD from Harvard University Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

philanthropist, proven through his work with Geoversity since the early days of Earth Train in Panama.

Educational background: BA in Jazz and Commercial Music (Towson University, Baltimore), MA in Studio/Jazz Guitar (University of Southern California Thornton School of Music).

Claus settled in Latin America, in 1997, starting with a six-year stint in the Amazon engaging indigenous people in environmental monitoring, sustainable economic development, including ecotourism; and estab-lishing innovative protected areas management regimes. Some of Latin America’s most renowned lawyers then trained him in legal matters and human rights based development strategies. Claus managed, for seven years, intercultural governance and poverty eradication programs in Central America, served as director to a World Bank infrastructure project and managed a land titling process in culturally complex territo-ries in collaboration with national environment authorities. He spent two years as a consultant evaluating natural resource management programs and most recently he was the regional representative of the environment organization, Forests of the World. Before Google Earth

Atala joined the team in the early Earth Train days as the Director of Administration. She came from an international law �rm established in Panama. In addition to applying her skills in management, budgeting, logistics business planning, and systems design, she has been serving as a counselor and coach to interns. She speaks �uent in both Spanish and English. She is the founder of Geoversity’s Youth Innovating for Biodiver-sity and Ecology program (JIBE), the author of an environmental educa-tion and coloring book for children, and has organized two environmen-tal theater plays. Educational background: Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Universidad Americana and a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Management.

existed, Claus was conducting expeditions to the Earth’s most remote and indigenous territories. He co-owned the Danish travel agency “Seven C’s Adventure Group” which �nanced his studies and was eventually sold after �ve years. Education: Civil Engineer and Land Surveyor / MSc International Development Studies from Aalborg University and Roskilde University (Denmark -1996).

Delia is a Panamanian with over 18 years of experience running her own �nancial management company. She is the sta� in our organization with the longest history and has as such been in charge of our �nances since 2007. Educational background: Certi�ed Public Accountant (Panama).

Mark �rst arrived to Mamoní in 2013 and volunteered to the cause of leadership training and conservation. Since then, he has been leading local and international student groups of all ages throughout the Mamoní Valley and parts of Panama, and has developed a deep knowl-edge of the local biodiversity and culture. He is the co-founder and CEO of Experience Mamoní. He is trained in emergency response and jungle survival, and while living in Canada he specialized in landscape construction and heavy machinery operation. He is a true waterman, having been raised in Aruba and also speaks four languages: English, Dutch, Spanish and Papiamento, which has helped Mark with support-ing Geoversity in program development and management. When Mark has the time for it, he keeps exploring the Americas and Asia.

Educational background: BA in Business Administration from Laurentian University Canada, where he graduated Cum Laude. Certi�ed Wilderness Guide from PAWGI.

Anna arrived to Fundación Earth Train, Geoversity’s predecessor in 2012 as a volunteer during Jane Goodall’s initial collaboration with our lead-ership and training cause. Five years later she returned to Panama, after receiving her Wilderness Guide Certi�cate, to serve until recently as Experience Mamoní’s Business Development and Program Coordinator. Her role has been crucial in organizing and leading our educational programs, along with the creation of a strategy to market those through our web and social media channels. Anna is originally from Barcelona, but also lived and studied in England, which also makes her the perfect bilingual research facilitator and expedition guide. Anna is a diver, loves dancing, and is passionate about animals.

Educational background: MSc. in Natural Resource Management, Post-

Nico arrived to Bocas del Toro, Panama in 2006 as a Peace Corps volun-teer, where he worked primarily with indigenous Ngäbe people promot-ing sustainable agriculture and agroforestry, with an emphasis on increasing cacao production in local plantations. After completing his service he moved on to become a tour guide and operator in the high-lands of Chiriquí province, specializing in treks, agro-tourism and indige-nous cultural experiences with his Ngäbe friends. Nico has now seven years of hosting and management experience, including at our Centro Mamoní facilities in the Mamoní Valley Preserve. His programmatic involvement also includes agriculture and community relations. In his spare time he loves to go on “waterfall quests” — in search for beautiful, undiscovered falls.

Educational background: Certi�ed Wilderness Guide from PAWGI, BA in International Studies and Hispanic Studies from Washington College

graduate in International Cooperation and Development, studied Biology at Barcelona University and Agronomy Engineering at the Polytechnic University; certi�ed animal trainer from Canine Unit Instruction and Certi�ed Wilderness Guide with the International Wilderness Academy.

Nico arrived to Bocas del Toro, Panama in 2006 as a Peace Corps volun-teer, where he worked primarily with indigenous Ngäbe people promot-ing sustainable agriculture and agroforestry, with an emphasis on increasing cacao production in local plantations. After completing his service he moved on to become a tour guide and operator in the high-lands of Chiriquí province, specializing in treks, agro-tourism and indige-nous cultural experiences with his Ngäbe friends. Nico has now seven years of hosting and management experience, including at our Centro Mamoní facilities in the Mamoní Valley Preserve. His programmatic involvement also includes agriculture and community relations. In his spare time he loves to go on “waterfall quests” — in search for beautiful, undiscovered falls.

Educational background: Certi�ed Wilderness Guide from PAWGI, BA in International Studies and Hispanic Studies from Washington College

For the past decade, David, together with his colleagues at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University, has taught the next generation of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg how to create disruptive innovations. His keynotes share those insights and, through entertaining real world examples, he helps leaders and frontline innovators understand how to develop disruptive innovation in their organizations. His innovations have been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News as well as ESPN, and Smithsonian Innovation and Popular Science. He has held appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and North Carolina State University. His work has been recognized in numerous scienti�c journals and popular science outlets.

Shea Welsh is a guitarist, songwriter and producer. His ability to move freely through any genre has made him share the stage with musicians from The Edge, U2, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police, Heatwave, Peaches & Herb, John Taylor, and Duran Duran. Among many productions Shea recorded his �rst Blujazz project “Arriv-al” in 2017, but has also produced for The Hipnotics', Michelle Coltrane, The Jane Carrey Band and emerging artists My Serenity and Chris Monaghan. He has performed at several festivals, including three times at the Panama Jazz Festival and The Miami Beach Jazz Festi-val with Michelle Coltrane, to whom he is a co-writer, studio musician and musical director for her touring band. As an educator, Shea runs The Shea Welsh Institute of Jazz at The Conservatory of Performing Arts and he is a USC Thornton School of Music Studio/Jazz Guitar faculty member. Shea is a concerned environmentalist and

Educational background: PhD from Harvard University Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

philanthropist, proven through his work with Geoversity since the early days of Earth Train in Panama.

Educational background: BA in Jazz and Commercial Music (Towson University, Baltimore), MA in Studio/Jazz Guitar (University of Southern California Thornton School of Music).

Rolando’s background and skills are thoroughly multidisciplinary. His experience includes working with law �rms, nonpro�ts, businesses, and local government, ranging from legal advice to qualitative research. In 2016, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for graduate studies in Washington, DC, where he worked for the DOEE and consulted for local nonpro�ts. He later joined UNLEASH, a community of young leaders tackling global issues, as the �rst and only Panamanian at the time. Since 2018, he contributes his interdisciplinary training and experiences to advance Geoversity’s mission at Mamoni. Rolando speaks three languages and is a certi�ed interpreter. He is also a bassist and an avid boulderer.

Carlos Andrés has been our lawyer since 2008 working on our projects in the Mamoní Valley and with our partnering Mamoní 100 Membership Club, as well as other for pro�t and not-for-pro�t partners operating in the Valley. He also participates in land transactions for long lasting not-for-pro�t management, develops sustainable legal strategies around land ownership and conservation easements in general, and supports our community development and sustainable livelihood initiatives.

Educational background: Bachelor of Law and Political Science (Univer-sidad Americana 2011) and Master in Business Administration with emphasis on strategic management (Universidad Interamericana de Panamá (2019).

Educational background: M.A. in Environmental Policy from GWU; Master of Environmental Management from UIP; Bachelor of Laws from UP.

Kandi, from Bilbao, Spain, is a certi�ed wilderness guide and an experi-enced IT technician with a talent for outdoor action videography. Start-ing from 2010 he has worked in the international voluntary service sector. Following work in Africa and Asia, he joined our mission in 2011 to assist in the production of the Roots & Shoots conference with Jane Goodall. In 2013 he became our o�cial videographer and �lmmaker. For two simultaneous years, Kandi also served as a Production Coordinator at Fundación Albatros Media in Panama, documenting numerous conservation initiatives. He has been directing, shooting and editing most of the videos related to Geoversity and the Mamoní Valley Preserve. Besides, he is a long distance runner and a biker. Educational background: Certi�ed Wilderness Guide from PAWGI and Vocational Training in IT.

Kandi, from Bilbao, Spain, is a certi�ed wilderness guide and an experi-enced IT technician with a talent for outdoor action videography. Start-ing from 2010 he has worked in the international voluntary service sector. Following work in Africa and Asia, he joined our mission in 2011 to assist in the production of the Roots & Shoots conference with Jane Goodall. In 2013 he became our o�cial videographer and �lmmaker. For two simultaneous years, Kandi also served as a Production Coordinator at Fundación Albatros Media in Panama, documenting numerous conservation initiatives. He has been directing, shooting and editing most of the videos related to Geoversity and the Mamoní Valley Preserve. Besides, he is a long distance runner and a biker. Educational background: Certi�ed Wilderness Guide from PAWGI and Vocational Training in IT.

For the past decade, David, together with his colleagues at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University, has taught the next generation of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg how to create disruptive innovations. His keynotes share those insights and, through entertaining real world examples, he helps leaders and frontline innovators understand how to develop disruptive innovation in their organizations. His innovations have been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News as well as ESPN, and Smithsonian Innovation and Popular Science. He has held appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and North Carolina State University. His work has been recognized in numerous scienti�c journals and popular science outlets.

Shea Welsh is a guitarist, songwriter and producer. His ability to move freely through any genre has made him share the stage with musicians from The Edge, U2, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police, Heatwave, Peaches & Herb, John Taylor, and Duran Duran. Among many productions Shea recorded his �rst Blujazz project “Arriv-al” in 2017, but has also produced for The Hipnotics', Michelle Coltrane, The Jane Carrey Band and emerging artists My Serenity and Chris Monaghan. He has performed at several festivals, including three times at the Panama Jazz Festival and The Miami Beach Jazz Festi-val with Michelle Coltrane, to whom he is a co-writer, studio musician and musical director for her touring band. As an educator, Shea runs The Shea Welsh Institute of Jazz at The Conservatory of Performing Arts and he is a USC Thornton School of Music Studio/Jazz Guitar faculty member. Shea is a concerned environmentalist and

Educational background: PhD from Harvard University Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

philanthropist, proven through his work with Geoversity since the early days of Earth Train in Panama.

Educational background: BA in Jazz and Commercial Music (Towson University, Baltimore), MA in Studio/Jazz Guitar (University of Southern California Thornton School of Music).

After several years working as a media journalist in his homeland Argen-tine, Ezequiel decided to travel and explore new communication styles for inspiration to his master’s thesis in journalism. He �rst worked for x years as a photographer in Costa Rica, but, when he transferred to become the communications o�cer at the Isaac Rabin high school in Panama, he discovered his additional passion for education and decided to settle in Panama. Being a musician, he believes strongly that “Art is everywhere and is one of the best means for communication. If you want to compose you have to know how to look, listen, process and express and if you know that then you can apply it to almost everything in life”. Today Ezequiel works with Kandi on documenting the Life Changing experiences people get within our Geoversity ecosystem and the Mamoní Valley Preserve and manages our social media platforms.

Educational background: Degree in Social and Audiovisual Communication

For the past decade, David, together with his colleagues at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University, has taught the next generation of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg how to create disruptive innovations. His keynotes share those insights and, through entertaining real world examples, he helps leaders and frontline innovators understand how to develop disruptive innovation in their organizations. His innovations have been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News as well as ESPN, and Smithsonian Innovation and Popular Science. He has held appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and North Carolina State University. His work has been recognized in numerous scienti�c journals and popular science outlets.

Shea Welsh is a guitarist, songwriter and producer. His ability to move freely through any genre has made him share the stage with musicians from The Edge, U2, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police, Heatwave, Peaches & Herb, John Taylor, and Duran Duran. Among many productions Shea recorded his �rst Blujazz project “Arriv-al” in 2017, but has also produced for The Hipnotics', Michelle Coltrane, The Jane Carrey Band and emerging artists My Serenity and Chris Monaghan. He has performed at several festivals, including three times at the Panama Jazz Festival and The Miami Beach Jazz Festi-val with Michelle Coltrane, to whom he is a co-writer, studio musician and musical director for her touring band. As an educator, Shea runs The Shea Welsh Institute of Jazz at The Conservatory of Performing Arts and he is a USC Thornton School of Music Studio/Jazz Guitar faculty member. Shea is a concerned environmentalist and

Educational background: PhD from Harvard University Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

philanthropist, proven through his work with Geoversity since the early days of Earth Train in Panama.

Educational background: BA in Jazz and Commercial Music (Towson University, Baltimore), MA in Studio/Jazz Guitar (University of Southern California Thornton School of Music).

Kike’s programmatic involvement is focused on GIS mapping and com-munity involvement. Kike is a Guna elder from the autonomous indige-nous Gunayala territory (“comarca”). He served as the Secretary General of the Guna General Congress, and is one of the original cartographers of the Mamoní Valley and therefore spent many years trekking and map-ping the jungles at the Continental Divide between Mamoní and Gunay-ala. He is also an invaluable part of our pool of local guides.

Iniki was the founding president of the Guna Youth Congress, and is currently sta� with Panama’s Ministry of the Environment specializing in indigenous a�airs, Environmental Impact Assessment studies and protected areas. Following studies in Europe in 2007, he has been active at supporting the Guna General Congress and has represented the Guna people and the Guna Youth Congress in numerous international fora.

Raisa is the Vice Mayor of Panama City (actual mayor in functions). She has devoted many years of life to environmental protection and advo-cates strongly that social economic development of the entire Panama but especially the capital should be compatible with ecological sustain-ability. She was the Executive Director of CIAM (Center for Environmen-tal Impact) from 2007 – 2010 and is currently the current President of Sustainable Panama (PASOS), an organization that she founded in 2010 to promote alternative development solutions. She was co-founder of Alianza Pro-Ciudad (2010), Pro-Defense Committee of Camino de Cruces National Park and other community organizations; and Coordinator and Producer of the television program Nuestro Planeta (2010). She founded the architecture and design �rm RGB S.A. (1994-2007).

Jörg is widely considered to be one of the most accomplished and skilled master builders in bamboo in the world. Following a career as a furniture maker and structural carpenter in his home country of Germa-ny, he moved to Colombia in 1994. Since he has since been working with several of the great designers and projects in bamboo, including the Colombian architect Simon Velez, the of the Green School in Bali, Indonesia and the designer Linda Garland, the founder of the Environ-mental Bamboo Foundation. He specializes in blending European contemporary design and traditional bamboo carpentry. Among Stamm’s most well-known accomplishments are the design and build-ing of roofed bridges with a span of 30 meters, in Colombia and Bali; the iconic Simon Velez designed pavilion for Colombia in the 2000 World Expo in Hanover, Germany; and the Orchid Pavilion at the McKee Botani-cal Garden in Vero Beach, Florida, the �rst o�cially recognized bamboo

Educational background: Architect from the University of Panama (1993).

Roger is Colombian and a co-founder of Geoversity Design. He is special-ized in design and constructions in guadua bamboo, but has wide expe-rience with the use of any natural material. He has designed experimen-tal structures, houses, bridges, as well as ecotourism, research station and waste management projects in several Latin American countries. Many of these projects have been in collaboration with Jörg Stamm. Roger is always involved in Geoversity’s training and product develop-ment workshops, as well as in the building projects requested by individuals or companies, state institutions, the international develop-ment cooperation or our own initiatives. Educational background: Landscaping Architect with a specialization in the use of bamboo and wood.

pavilion in USA. Stamm has founded or helped start several bamboo-related companies and organized numerous introductory and advanced training programs in bamboo construction in numerous countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Educational background: Carpenter