Luis Eduardo Luna (born 1947, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia) is an anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and scholar internationally recognized for his pioneering work on ayahuasca, Amazonian shamanic traditions, and the relationship between master plants, cognition, and culture. His contributions have been essential in building bridges between academic research and the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon.

Luna studied social sciences and literature in Colombia, later earning a master’s degree in philosophy and a PhD in anthropology from Stockholm University. His ethnographic research with Peruvian vegetalista practitioners and Amazonian healers led him to document traditional practices, visions, and symbolic systems associated with the ritual use of ayahuasca. His classic book Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon remains a foundational work in the field.

For more than three decades, he has taught at institutions such as the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of Helsinki, and the Institute of Amazonian Studies in Iquitos. He also co-founded, together with the Peruvian–German artist Pablo Amaringo, the USKO-AYAR Amazonian School of Painting, which sparked a visionary art movement recognized worldwide.

Luna is also co-editor of the Ayahuasca Reader and author of numerous academic publications and international lectures. His career is distinguished by a strong advocacy for the intellectual, spiritual, and cultural value of Amazonian traditions, promoting respectful dialogue between modern science and the ancestral knowledge that has safeguarded the use of sacred plants for centuries.