Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio es abogado y doctor en Ciencia de los Recursos Naturales de la Universidad de McGill. Hace parte del equipo intercultural de apoyo a la co-creación de una universidad indígena liderada por el pueblo Inga de Colombia. Recientemente vinulado como investigador posdoctoral del programa de Liderazgo para la Era Ecozoica (L4E), Universidad de McGill. www.l4ecozoic.org/iván-vargas-roncancio

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Iván Darío Vargas-Roncancio is a Ph.D. candidate in Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, and graduate fellow Leadership for the Ecozoic program. He is a lawyer with Master degrees in Bioscience and Law (National University of Colombia, 2012), and Latin American Studies (Duke University, 2016); Junior Specialist (CPPR-UC Davis) and ethnographer (Everyday Peace Indicators-George Mason) and has been a Colciencias scholar (Colombia, 2013), and a FLAS fellow (Foreign Language and Area Studies-PUC São Paulo, 2016). His research ethnographically follows Indigenous practitioners, scientists, legal scholars, and ritual plants across territories, documents, and courts of justice to contribute to a larger paradigm shift: from reductionist environmental law and governance models to ecological, systems-based, and other-than-human jurisprudence in post-conflict Colombia. Iván asks how forests become legal agents through different sets of practices; how human and other-than-human beings such as Amazonian plants co-produce protocols for forest governance, and how a law that comes from the territory challenges concepts of justice, agency, and value in times of socio-ecological transitions. His interests include Earth Law, Indigenous Law and Cosmologies, Ethnography, Amazonia. More information: www.l4ecozoic.org/iván-vargas-roncancio