Sathya Raghu is the CEO of Soul Forest, building India’s first Nature Economic Zones that blend ecological restoration with long-term economic wellbeing. He is the author of Soul Forest and the Children Who Heard the Earth’s Secrets (2025), and an Earthshot Prize-winning social entrepreneur. Soul Forest’s decade-long goal is to restore 100,000 acres of barren land into biodiverse forests. The question that guides his work now is how to help a billion humans remember that nature is our ancestor and to move a billion dollars toward restoring it.