Holding both a MBA from ESSEC Business School and a MSc from Mines ParisTech, Nicolas Hunsinger has developed an expertise at the crossroads of Sustainability, Tech and Media, by combining strategy, innovation and change management. 

As Chief Sustainability Officer at French tech unicorn Exotec, and previously at gaming giant Ubisoft, he has developed a science-based and business-driven practice of Sustainability which enables to create new value propositions.

After starting his career at Warner Bros, Nicolas joined Ubisoft in 2014, where he executed a comprehensive sustainability strategy and carbon footprint reduction. Ubisoft was the first video game pure player to get its 2030 reduction target validated by the Science-Based Target initiative. In partnership with the United Nations Environment Program, he engaged Ubisoft studios in raising players’ awareness of environmental issues in 17 major games. As a result, the game Riders Republic gathered thousands of players in the first ever Climate March to take place in a video game. With an overall reach of 60 million players, Ubisoft raised about half a million euros for NGOs and planted 1,5M trees. 

Nicolas’ passion for impact entertainment led him to launch Project Trojan, an initiative designed to support the development of video games with an environmental component and a mass-market potential. With a worldwide audience of 3 billion players, video games have a unique potential to raise awareness and inspire to take action against climate change. 

Nicolas’ expertise led him to be invited to talk at the European Parliament and to collaborate with research bodies and think tanks like La Fabrique des Récits, Project Drawdown, Carbon Trust and ADEME, the French agency for ecological transition. He is laureate of the Palmares Giverny x Le Point 2023 recognizing the achievements of 50 leaders under the age of 40 who contribute to accelerating the ecological and social transformation of France.