Matthew R. Desantis Email & Phone Number

Matt is the founder of MyBhutan, Bhutan’s boutique luxury travel designer and outfitter, and a technology company, Beyul Labs, that provides Bhutan’s first online payments platform. He also created Sangwa Camp — featured in TIME's 2024 World's Greatest Places — a collection of hidden luxury tented camps, privately arranged in the deepest and most secluded regions of Bhutan. Matt and his team found, fund, and develop various nonprofit projects. These have included a historic national preservation initiative to document, digitize, and archive Bhutan’s tangible cultural art and religious history, a multi-district community forest afforestation project, the introduction of baseball and its recognition as a national sport, and the founding of The Explorers Club Bhutan Chapter, which Matt chairs. He is one of Bhutan’s longest residing non-natives with a relationship to Bhutan that dates back to his youth.Unrelated to his work, Matt serves as the U.S. State Department Warden of Bhutan. An avid explorer himself, Matt has surveyed some of the least explored regions of the Himalayas. His expeditions have reached beyond Bhutan as well. In 2019, Matt was part of the expedition team honored with the Citation of Merit from the Explorers Club for their expedition that covered 1,300 miles of the Gobi Desert with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in a first to apply NASA imaging and mapping technologies. The expedition made major headlines for discovering 3 new dinosaur species, over 250 new fossil locations and scores of specimens. His photography has received various recognitions including accolades from the Sony World Photography Awards.