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Dhun | Suryagarh Collection | The I Love Foundation
Founder & Serial Entrepreneur
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Manvendra Singh Shekhawat is a systems thinker working at the intersection of culture, ecology, and development—designing new paradigms of growth rooted in place, memory, and dignity. His practice fuses ancestral knowledge systems with modern tools to prototype regenerative models of living and development across the Global South.
He is the founder of Dhun, a 500-acre experimental town in Jaipur regenerating barren land into a thriving socio-ecological habitat for creators, thinkers, and entrepreneurs. Through the Suryagarh Collection, he restores historic forts into hospitality-led cultural districts, transforming forgotten civilizational assets into soft power infrastructure. His nonprofit, The I Love Foundation, catalyzes civic capacity, cultural preservation, and regionally-led innovation.
Manvendra’s work challenges conventional silos—positioning development not as extraction, but as a form of regeneration through coordination and care. Recognized by The King’s Foundation (HM King Charles III) and Qatar Foundation for leading India’s first B-Corp real estate pilot, he has spoken at the Earthna Summit and UNGA 100 Disruptors, and is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute, Unreasonable Group, INK, and Summit Labs.
At Cambridge Frontier Labs, he brings an alternative development logic—one that treats tradition not as nostalgia, but as planetary intelligence.
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