Winners of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize typically have several things in common. They look at the big challenges confronting society as opportunities for innovation. They don’t celebrate process: instead, they measure success or failure by outcomes. And they don’t reject conventional wisdom; they ignore it.

Above all, they share the need to try to make the world what it could and should be, rather than what it is.

Dr. Margaret Lowman, a winner of the 2023 Prize, fits that bill. Her passion is the health of the global forests that are essential components of the natural systems that keep us all alive. That drives her science, her advocacy and her educational initiatives which circle the globe. For a world that has destroyed 50% of the forests that existed seventy years ago, her work is—literally—critical to any hope of coping with climate change.

Listen (and watch) this special episode of New Thinking for a New World. And then go out and climb a tree!