Luiz Villares is an environmentalist and project expert with 20 years of experience in the Amazon. From 2008 to 2023, he was the CFO of the Sustainable Amazon Foundation, the largest Brazilian organization for social and environmental projects in the Amazon, with an emphasis on supporting the bioeconomy, local entrepreneurship, education, citizenship and health for forest communities. He holds the title of Master of International Management “With Distinction” from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Villares is also the author of articles published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and academic articles, including “Blockchain and Conservation: why does it Matter”, August 2020, “Environmental Management and Data for the SDGs”, April 2021 and “Cryptocurrencies Effectiveness for Nature”, August, 2022.