Arnaud Castaignet is Vice-President of Government Affairs & Public Relations at Skeleton Technologies, a European leader in high power, fast charging energy storage, member of Cleantech for Europe and the European Battery Alliance. He has been working in public relations and government affairs for over 14 years. In the public sector, he previously worked as Head of Public Relations for the Republic of Estonia’s e-Residency programme and as a Communication Officer for the French President François Hollande. In the private sector, he worked as Director for Political Outreach and Communication at DIGITALEUROPE, the European organisation that represents digitally-transforming industries in Brussels, and as a consultant for iStrat (now, Avisa Partners), an international public affairs consultancy in Paris. He started his professional career as a business journalist specialized in geopolitics of energy in Istanbul.