Following a successful 15-year career in law, finance and climate change, Mina founded ‘Thirst’, a non-profit focused on changing the way we think about water. Since then, she has run hundreds of marathons to raise awareness and inspire action on water.

She ran an incredible 200 marathons in one year for water during the first phase of RunBlue in 2022-23. Now Mina is running over 800 km along France’s Seine River in 30 days, from its source all the way to where it meets the sea at Le Havre – a world first. Her mission is to draw attention to the considerable efforts being made to clean up the Seine and the need for all cities and countries to restore their rivers to help tackle water, climate and nature crises.

Mina’s run along the Seine is also the prologue to the next phase of the RunBlue campaign – the ‘World River Run’, during which she will run thousands of kilometres in 2025-26 along iconic rivers on six continents to raise awareness of the crisis facing the world’s rivers, and to inspire governments, businesses and communities to take action to protect and restore them. Find out more on Mina’s website, Instagram, Facebook and X.