Renaud Batier

Renaud Batier has been working for Cerame-Unie, the European Ceramic Industry Association, since 2007, first as Senior Adviser and since 2008 as Director General. In 2002, he joined the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL) as the EU Public Affairs Manager. Prior to this, he completed an internship at the European Commission in DG Trade (Anti-dumping) and worked in the field of Competition law with British law firm Hammond’s. He graduated in Law from the law faculty of Poitiers in France in 1997 and specialised in European Union Business Law at the Amsterdam Law School in 1997-1998. In addition to his role at Cerame-Unie, he is Secretary General of the World Ceramic Tiles Forum, Vice-Chair of industry alliance AEGIS Europe and member of the Boards of Construction Products Europe and A.SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency).