Roberto Zariquiey holds a PhD in Linguistics from LaTrobe University (Melbourne). He is currently a senior lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University (he is the first Peruvian to receive such recognition). He is also a research associate at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) and a National Geographic Society Explorer. Zariquiey has published articles and books on the description and documentation of Peruvian indigenous languages, as well as four collections of poetry. He has led several research and social projects on Amazonian languages on diverse topics (from acoustic phonetics and computational linguistics to ethnobiological knowledge and traditional art). He is currently developing a revitalization plan for the Iskonawa language in coordination with the National Geographic Society.