Tuntiak Katan Jua

Since 2018, Tuntiak Katan is Vice Coordinator of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA). Since 2019 he is the General Coordinator of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, formed by 4 international Indigenous organizations. He is also a member of the advisory board of The Tenure Facility – TF and Equitable Origen-EO. He is native to the Ecuadorian Amazon and a member of the Shuar People. He completed a Technology in Conservation Biology and Natural Resource Management with the Missouri Botanical Garden. He studied Applied Ecology and Environmental Management at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.