Miisa Mink is an award-winning activist, entrepreneur and founding partner of The Activist Agency. She has extensive experience in entrepreneurship in both Finland and the United Kingdom. Mink has been involved in numerous startups as a founder, investor, and advisor, and in 2013 she established the DrivenWoman network, which operated in more than ten countries. In the 2000s, she became known as the founder of TBWA\Tango, Finland’s first internationally recognized design agency.
Mink is also the founder and chair of the Saimaa ilman kaivoksia (“Saimaa Without Mines”) NGO and the initiator of the Kaivostoiminnalle RAJAT (“Limits to Mining”) citizens’ initiative. Through her work on sustainability issues, she has become known as one of Finland’s leading critical voices on mining. She challenges what she sees as a one-sided climate debate by highlighting the downsides of the green transition, particularly the environmental impacts of mineral extraction on waterways and other ecosystems.
Mink is regularly featured in the media.
