Olivier holds three Master's degrees: one Agroforestry from the Paris Institute of Geography (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), one in Information Systems from IFSIC and another in Finance and Business Administration. Olivier spent most of his career working in the private sector in the areas of industrial plantations, forestry and pesticides in Africa, Latin America and Middle East. Throughout his career, he has held positions such as CFO and MD for several international and industrial companies in the agro-forestry and wood industry.
From 2012 to 2016 he was part of the SIFCA group in Abidjan, where he led the Biokala-Biovea project, with the aim of establishing numerous biomass power generation facilities in Ivory Coast, and more recently restructured the largest forestry company in Africa (Gabon). Since 2018 he has held the position of director of AETS Africa in Ivory Coast.