Nicolas Chevrollier is a Professor of Sustainability Transitions at Nyenrode Business University. He is part of Nyenrode’s Faculty Research Center for Entrepreneurship, Governance & Stewardship. Chevrollier is lecturing at BSc, MSc and MBA levels and researching on how new forms of market transformation, organizations and novel education programmes lead to higher levels of sustainability (all under the umbrella of “Sustainability Transitions”). He is especially interested in the transition to post-growth economy and how degrowth principles could be embedded into organization. Reconciling people, planet and business mechanisms is what ultimately give him energy while interacting with students and colleagues.
His background is of multiple international experiences in three continents (US, Africa, Europe). At Nyenrode, as part of his faculty role, he is academically responsible for the Impact MBA and member of the education committee of the Modular MBA programme. He served for six years as chair of the education committee of the BSc programme. Prior to Nyenrode, he used to be the managing director of the Inclusive Business Accelerator and a management team member of the BoP Innovation Center.
Chevrollier obtained his PhD in 2006 from the National Institute of Telecommunications (INT) in France while conducting research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US. He followed in 2008 the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme (ISEP). He was an international volunteer for the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) in Madagascar in 2001-2002.