Mina Guli is an Australian businesswoman, active in the environmental sector.[1] She is CEO of Thirst.[2]
Early life and education
Guli was born in Mount Waverley, a suburb of Melbourne and attended the University of Melbourne.[3]. She studied a Master of Law at the university which she completed in 1999.[4] In 1993, Guli was elected as president of the Monash University Student Union.[5]
At the age of 22, Guli broke her back in a swimming pool accident and was told by her doctors that she would never run again.[3]
Career
After graduation, Guli worked as a lawyer in the private sector in the energy and infrastructure sectors.[6] In 1999 she moved to the Sydney Futures Exchange, where she was involved in the development of Australia's carbon emission markets.[3] In 2002 she was asked to join the World Bank and assisted in developing carbon trading projects in China, India, Nepal and Indonesia.[3] She returned to the private sector in 2005 and continued her work in the renewable energy and climate change sectors in China.[7]
In 2012, Guli founded Thirst, a group promoting water conservation to young people.[8] Guli attempted to run one hundred marathons in one hundred days, to raise awareness of water scarcity, but a fractured femur forced her to abandon the attempt on day sixty three.[9]
Guli is the former deputy chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Beijing,[10] a strategic advisor to the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders community, and a member of the Young Presidents Organisation.[11]
