Christophe Maroun is Environmental Justice Program Manager, Heinrich Böll Foundation – MENA. He is a Lebanese researcher and activist based in Beirut. He has a BS in Environmental Health from the American University of Beirut and a Master’s degree from Joint European Masters for Environmental Studies – Cities and Sustainability at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he focused on the fields of Political Ecology and Environmental Justice. He has worked with the EJ-Atlas and Acknowl-EJ, a network of scholars and activists engaged in action and collaborative research that aims to analyze the transformative potential of community responses to extractivism and alternatives born from resistance.