Olivier Brechard

Olivier serves since 2019 as the Director of International Relations at the Learning Planet Institute, which has become in 2025 a UNESCO Category 2 Center and a UN University Hub. Olivier supervises various programmes such as the Learning Planet Alliance, the Youth Design Challenge, the action-research on Learning Ecosystems in the Global South, Peaceful Futures and the Learning Planet Festival Previously, Olivier acquired a solid expertise in the design and management of global initiatives addressing the future of learning, notably as executive director of WISE (2008-2012). He contributed to programmes such as Global Education Futures, GELP, Edtech France, European Open EdTech Challenge, Learning Without Frontiers, Catalyst NOW, and served as CEO of the WebForce3 network of digital schools that he co-founded (2015-2019). Olivier is part of the Advisory Board of Ecolhuma, Génération Mada, No Limits to Hope, Varkey Foundation Global Schools Prize, and he is a Salzburg Global Fellow.