Thomas Gleize holds an engineering degree from the École Centrale de Lyon (master's level) and a professional master's degree in Industrial Engineering, option management of technological projects at Polytechnique Montreal.

Through his previous experiences, he was able to participate in the deployment of management and reporting dashboards (KPIs monitoring, database automation) for a financial department, as well as for a sales department.

After joining CIRANO, he was involved in different research projects on the potential contribution of AI to make finance more sustainable, but also on the publication of the confidence barometer in food as well as on the CIRANO risk barometer (the whole barometer, specific analyses on the organization of work during the Covid-19 pandemic and the preferences for the future for the Québec Économique, as well as on climate change and the behaviors of Quebecers).