Principal professor in the Department of Social Sciences of PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Perú (PUCP). He is the Director of the Master’s Degree in Advanced Amazonian Studies and Coordinator of the Research Group in Amazonian Anthropology. He has a doctorate in Anthropology and History from the New School for Social Research in New York. He has been a specialist in multiple Amazonian peoples of Peru for more than 30 years, mainly with the Asháninka and Shipibo-Konibo peoples, on which he has published various books and articles. His research topics include indigenous politics, the relationship between indigenous peoples and the State, ethnohistory and history of the Amazon, education and intercultural justice.