Graham Watkins spent four decades working in Latin America and the Caribbean as a conservation biologist, natural resource specialist, and climate policy specialist. He served as Executive Director of the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galápagos and Director General of the Iwokrama Centre in Guyana before leading the Climate Change Division at the Inter-American Development Bank. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from the University of Oxford. He now works independently through Watkins Advisory and is also the author of The Next Wave: How Latin America Can Lead the Technological Revolution, and The Rupununi remains one of the places that shaped his thinking most.

Pete Oxford is a British conservation photographer and biologist based in Cape Town, South Africa, after many years living in Quito, Ecuador. A Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), he has spent decades working in the world’s most remote wildlife and cultural destinations. His award-winning images — recognized with the Ranger Rick Photographer of the Year award and Ecuador’s Photo Journalist of the Year (2014) — have appeared in publications including National Geographic and International Wildlife.

Renee Bish is a naturalist, conservationist, designer, sculptor, nurse, and photographic partner to Pete Oxford. South African by origin, she has lived in Ecuador since 1992 and has traveled extensively alongside Oxford, documenting wildlife and indigenous cultures around the world. Together they co-lead Pete Oxford Expeditions and have contributed to conservation photography across some of the planet’s most biodiverse regions, including Guyana’s Rupununi.