Natan Zaidenweber was born in Mexico City and has been working on the field of development economics for the past 7 years, he holds a masters degree from Stanford University where he also lectured on the economic development of indigenous communities in Latin America. He's conducted research for the Energy and Resource Group at UC Berkeley, looking at the interface between Multinational corporations and indigenous peoples in the Amazon basin of Peru. Most recently he founded Fulcrum EcoSystems, a start-up company that is using information technology as a means to build up dialogue and create market incentives for conservation of natural resources.