Pierre-Jean Thil is a lawyer, researcher, and academic entrepreneur.
He is admitted to the French and Spanish bars and holds degrees from the College of Europe and the Fletcher School (Tufts University). He is pursuing a joint doctoral thesis between Université Toulouse Capitole and the Autonomous University of Barcelona on European Union data law. He is a research affiliate at the Institute of Private Law, Toulouse Law School, and also serves as editor-in-chief of the CEVOTEQ Working Papers on the law and ethics of quantum technologies. His professional journey has taken him from law firms in Barcelona to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition, with research stays at the Hague Academy of International Law and Laval University.

For several years, he has developed innovative professional integration programs for law students with an international focus: simulations of European competitions, parliamentary negotiation workshops, meetings with practitioners from EU institutions, mentoring, and management of professional networks. He has coordinated professional teaching modules at the European School of Law, led supervised projects in partnership with Airbus, Pierre Fabre, and international law firms, and organized one of the first European and international careers forums in Toulouse, officially recognized by the French Ministry of Higher Education.

He is the co-founder of the Core Competencies for International and European Careers collection, designed to provide law students and young international lawyers with concrete tools—legal, institutional, and para-legal—to succeed in European and international careers.