Titouan Bernicot

Founder and Chief Executive, Coral Gardeners

Titouan Bernicot is the founder and CEO of Coral Gardeners, a reef restoration organisation. Based in French Polynesia, Bernicot has witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of climate change on coral reefs. At 18, he launched Coral Gardeners with a volunteer crew of friends and a crowdfunding campaign. Almost a decade later, the organisation comprises a team of over 80 gardeners, scientists, engineers and artists; a community of over a million supporters; and partners like Rolex, Prada and National Geographic, alongside ambassadors like Jason Momoa, Benedict Cumberbatch and marine biologist Sylvia Earle. To date, Coral Gardeners has planted over 220,000 corals across 2.5 hectares of reef in French Polynesia, Fiji and Thailand, with expansion into the Mediterranean underway.