Gul Panag is an Indian actress, voice actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Gul Panag is one of India’s most powerful opinion makers and thought leaders. Gul is a frontline advocate and activist who regularly engages and facilitates dialogue and debate on critical issues of gender equality and justice, environment issues, fundamental rights, secularism, corruption and political accountability.
Gul Panag holds a Masters degree in political science and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party’s national executive. Her social and political activism has had her being recognized as one of the most influential voices on social media and a youth icon.
Gul Panag is a highly respected Actor and Producer who has attained critical acclaim for each of her roles, winning awards, nominations and adulation. Gul’s body of work has covered sensitive social issues from public sector corruption to farmer suicides and gender inequality. Recognized as a ‘thinking actor’, critics have highly appreciated Gul’s ability to portray diverse characters in different languages.
Having travelled to over 30 countries and dozens of cities, Gul’s appetite for new places and cultures is insatiable. The Government of Finland had appointed Gul as an honorary tourism ambassador as part of the ‘Visit Finland’ program in the year 2011.
Gul Panag is passionate about technology, aviation and automobiles. She is on the jury of various Automobile and Technology Awards and has recently received her Private Pilot License.
Gul Panag is a serial half-marathon runner who is now working on constructing a program that espouses her personal fitness philosophy of strength, endurance and flexibility. Gul has extensively written and been interviewed on her fitness regimen, and is in the process of writing a book on fitness. Gul takes conscious activism to all her endeavors and is ambassador of the womens’ running initiative ‘Pinkathon’.
Gul Panag runs the Colonel Shamsher Singh Foundation, an NGO that works towards a variety of causes including gender equality, education and disaster management. She served on the advisory board of the Wockhardt Foundation. She also participated in the India Against Corruption movement. She ran at the Delhi Half Marathon in November 2010, but endured eve teasing (sexual harassment) from male runners at the event. She later remarked that the attitude of men in Delhi needed to change and that the city was unsafe for women.
