Thibault Fontanari is an anthropologist. He is currently a visiting lecturer at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. His research focuses on giving, walking, roadbuilding, and oral literature in the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan. He obtained his PhD at UCLouvain in 2018 on a doctoral fellowship from the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S-FNRS). He continued his research at Harvard University as a Fulbright visiting scholar and BAEF Fellow in 2019 and 2020, and then at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (LMU) in 2022.