Olivier Marquet is a Belgian independent researcher, amateur historian and genealogist. After a career as CEO of several organisations, including Triodos Bank and UNICEF Belgium, he devoted much of his time to historical and genealogical research. He has used Transkribus for several years to transcribe and analyse thousands of pages of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manuscripts and notarial records. His research is published through several online genealogy and local history platforms.