Unlocking The Value of The Amazon

Interview
Written By Fabio Issao

What do ants have to do with self-driving cars? How might the giant monkey frog of the Amazon help to solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance? Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Founder and Chairman of Space Time Ventures, explains why the Amazon basin holds the key to unlocking a bio-economic revolution potentially worth trillions of dollars – and explores the three challenges that must be overcome.

Fabio Issao
Currently focused on Branding and Information Design, Fabio Issao helps individuals and organizations to improve their visions, purposes and businesses strategies through design-oriented methodologies. In the last 12 years, Fabio co-founded 3 design studios (LUME, Flag and Camisa10). After that, he served as the Strategic Design Director at Mandalah, a global conscious innovation consultancy, for 5 years, where he helped global and local brands to implement design as a changing-driver for all its projects. Since July 2014 he's been working on different projects, all of them based on creating social good and purposeful products and services.
http://www.fabioissao.com
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