Full Name
WarīNkwī Flores
Job Title
Founder/Translational Consultant
Organisation
Kinray Hub
Speaker Bio
WarīNkwī Flores is a first-generation Andean Kara and Andean-Amazonian Kichwa PhD student at the University of Arizona. Founder/Translational Consultant, Kinray Hub develops innovative frameworks to improve negotiation conditions for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities through financial mechanisms for environmental markets and reinstatement of Indigenous commonwealth sovereignty.
WarīNkwī's work on data sovereignty implementation standards and on biocultural solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals, contributing to biocultural perspectives and Indigenous RDI (research, development, innovation) within the CEIBA Council, LAC, ensuring that emerging technologies and bio/data economies serve rather than dispossess the community commonwealth.
As IPBES Fellow for the 2nd Global Assessment (2025-2028), he contributes to the development of enforcement and compliance mechanisms and, as Co-Chair of the EcoAugmentation Initiative with the Geneva Science & Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), WarīNkwī centers Indigenous systems, futures, and anticipatory thinking to blueprint the roadmap of integrating emerging technologies (AI, SynBio, etc.,) in national and international frameworks.
WarīNkwī, as Technical Co-Lead for the BCA-IAPB-WEF Marine Biodiversity Credits Collaboration and a member of the Pooled Fund Steering Committee with Rights and Resources Initiative, supports how climate finance flows to frontline communities. As Translational Leader with the UN Biodiversity Credits Alliance – International Environmental Guardianship (IEG), he supports nature-related financial disclosure and Indigenous shareholdership in environmental market innovation and strategy. Contributed to the 2025 UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples study on Indigenous Peoples Rights to Data, including data collection and disaggregation.
As an Ancestral Territory Trustee accountable to his communities from 2019 to 2030, WarīNkwī offers an authentic cultural and translational leader’s perspective on the intersection of Indigenous institutionality and contemporary mechanisms, ensuring that research, development, and innovation strategies ethically serve communities and support ecosystem resilience.
WarīNkwī's work on data sovereignty implementation standards and on biocultural solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals, contributing to biocultural perspectives and Indigenous RDI (research, development, innovation) within the CEIBA Council, LAC, ensuring that emerging technologies and bio/data economies serve rather than dispossess the community commonwealth.
As IPBES Fellow for the 2nd Global Assessment (2025-2028), he contributes to the development of enforcement and compliance mechanisms and, as Co-Chair of the EcoAugmentation Initiative with the Geneva Science & Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), WarīNkwī centers Indigenous systems, futures, and anticipatory thinking to blueprint the roadmap of integrating emerging technologies (AI, SynBio, etc.,) in national and international frameworks.
WarīNkwī, as Technical Co-Lead for the BCA-IAPB-WEF Marine Biodiversity Credits Collaboration and a member of the Pooled Fund Steering Committee with Rights and Resources Initiative, supports how climate finance flows to frontline communities. As Translational Leader with the UN Biodiversity Credits Alliance – International Environmental Guardianship (IEG), he supports nature-related financial disclosure and Indigenous shareholdership in environmental market innovation and strategy. Contributed to the 2025 UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples study on Indigenous Peoples Rights to Data, including data collection and disaggregation.
As an Ancestral Territory Trustee accountable to his communities from 2019 to 2030, WarīNkwī offers an authentic cultural and translational leader’s perspective on the intersection of Indigenous institutionality and contemporary mechanisms, ensuring that research, development, and innovation strategies ethically serve communities and support ecosystem resilience.
