Batoul is a mechanical engineer, youth activist, social entrepreneur and an aspiring energy and sustainable development consultant.

Batoul’s everlasting goal is to contribute to the sustainable development of Lebanon and the region, through bottom-top approaches: entrepreneurship, startups, and capacity building; and through top-bottom approaches: policy making, governmental projects, and regional and international collaborations.  

Batoul is from Lebanon. Born and raised in a Lebanese southern village, Batoul moved to Beirut at the age of 18, Batoul recognised, as an adult, the gap yet the potential her country has for development and growth.  

At the age of 18 Batoul won a full-ride scholarship from the prestigious Mastercard Foundation scholarship to her dream university, the American University of Beirut (AUB). She studied Mechanical Engineering for her undergraduate degree with a minor in Economics. She participated in various volunteering activities, debate competitions and student clubs, and took leadership roles in some of them. Batoul also entered the entrepreneurship world by participating in national and international competitions, where she joined one startup and co-founded another.  

Upon graduation, Batoul took multiple diverse short-term roles that laid the foundation for her master’s degree but also for her future career in sustainable development. She interned as a research assistant, energy consultant, and policy consultant. Furthermore, Batoul participated in a US-embassy sponsored leadership program in the US and attended UN COP27 as a youth delegate of Lebanon. Through these two international experiences, she discovered the exceptional potential regional and global partnerships and collaborations have; and she took the decision to become -in a few years- the expert that her government can rely on to bring international investments, implement projects, and build partnerships.  

Right now, Batoul is studying an MSc in Sustainable Energy Future at Imperial College London and is equipping herself with the needed expertise to solve Lebanon’s and the region’s most pressing energy challenges to achieve energy security and to accelerate sustainable development.