Marc Aoun

Marc Aoun

Founder and CEO of Compost Baladi

Marc Aoun is an environmental scientist who graduated from the University of Utah in the USA and worked in the water development department at UN-ESCWA. He also gained invaluable knowledge in the field as he worked with national private consulting firms on quantifying pollution sources for surface water in Lebanon and solid waste management projects in Lebanon.

In 2017, Marc became Compost Baladi SAL's Co-Founder and General Manager, a company that provides waste management solutions for residential, commercial and municipal establishments. In addition to that, Marc has also been the Founder and General Manager of CubeX since 2019, a home-scale wastewater and solid waste treatment system that allows households to process all of their organic waste on-site effortlessly and recover valuable resources out of them.

Throughout his academic and professional career in sustainable agricultural practices, Marc has gained invaluable field experience. He has worked and trained in controlled environment agriculture, recirculating watering systems and zero-waste projects. Also, through a study experience in Central America, Marc explored and accomplished broad expertise in sustainable land, water, waste and energy management methods.