Prior to joining the University of Toulouse, Thomas-Olivier was Director, Risk Measurement and Control for Alcan Inc., a global aluminium and packaging firm based in Montréal, where he set up the risk management infrastructure. Previously he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, a global management consulting firm, where he was a leader in the North American Electric Power and Natural Gas and Risk Management practices. Thomas-Olivier has been published in numerous academic journals such as « the Energy Journal », « the Journal of Regulatory Economics » and « the Journal of Economics and Management Science ». Thomas-Olivier holds a PhD in Economics and a Master in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, a Master in Science from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France, and a Bachelor in Science from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France.