Hugo Martinez

Hugo Martinez is 27 years old. Originally from Beaujolais, he is the founder of Image & Influence, a Parisian public relations agency, and Image & Productions, an audiovisual company specializing in fiction and brand content. At 22, he orchestrated the advocacy that led to the unanimous vote of the law of March 2, 2022, the first French law to criminalize school bullying. President of the HUGO! Association, he regularly appears in national media on issues of youth, mental health, and influence communication.

Hugo Martinez did not wait to have a business card to take action. Originally from Beaujolais, he grew up far from Parisian networks and yet built, from his high school years, a conviction that would structure his entire trajectory: institutions are not inaccessible to those who know how to speak to them. It is this conviction that drives him to found the HUGO! Association, an advocacy organization dedicated to the protection of youth. At 22, he leads the campaign that results in the unanimous vote of the law of March 2, 2022, the first French law to criminalize school bullying. Behind this legislative victory, there is a method: mobilizing the media, building parliamentary alliances, embodying a cause with enough clarity and authenticity to make it impossible to ignore. And behind the method, there is a personal story. That of a young man who himself experienced bullying and chose to make it a driving force rather than a burden. Armed with this experience, he builds a professional path at the crossroads of strategic communication and creation. He founded Image & Influence, a Parisian public relations agency that supports elected officials, institutions, and companies in their public speaking. He simultaneously develops Image & Productions, an audiovisual company structured around two poles: fiction, with short films intended for festival circuits, and brand content, with digital formats and vodcasts aimed at brands and organizations. He has also served as France Director at Logos France and Communication Manager at ATHLETICA. Co-signatory of an article on the mental health of young people alongside Jean-Louis Borloo, a regular columnist on the MIEUX channel, he regularly appears in national television, radio, and print media. His voice is that of a practitioner: he does not comment on the subjects he addresses, he has lived, built, or supported them from the inside. What makes Hugo Martinez's profile unique for a speakers' agency is precisely this overlap of registers. He is an entrepreneur and activist, a communication strategist and a direct witness to legislative transformation, a son of Beaujolais and a interlocutor of Parliament. At 27, he embodies a generation that refuses to choose between action and reflection, between personal commitment and professional rigor. And he speaks about it without posturing, with the precision of someone who knows that well-chosen words can change laws.