Thierry Touchais graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. He acquired a broad culture by living in different countries in Europe, Northern and Latin America. In 2013, Thierry Touchais joined the GoodPlanet Foundation, which was founded in 2005 by photographer and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand, after eight years as Executive Director of the International Polar Foundation. Prior to this, he held various functions in the telecommunications sector, within multinational corporations as well as in a capital venture financed technology start-up.