Dr René Arnold is Vice President Public Affairs Strategy at Huawei Technologies. Previously, he worked at high-profile think tanks in Germany (German Economic Institute and WIK) and Brussels (Bruegel) where his research focused on digital economy, internet policy and impact assessments of regulatory frameworks. Over the past ten years, René has (co-)authored more than 100 conference papers, journal articles and white papers. He is a frequent speaker at both academic and industry events contributing among other fora to the ITU economic and industry round table, the Digital Summit of the German government and the research committee of the Munich Circle.