Sylvain Fort joined Avisa Partners as a Partner in 2020. He was previously advisor to the President of the Republic in charge of communication and speeches, after having been responsible for communication within the campaign team. He has over fifteen years of experience in communications and public affairs. After having worked in the strategy department, the financing business and the BNL-BNP Paribas integration team, he joined the DGM Conseil agency (2008-2012), a leading corporate communication agency in Paris. He then founded his own communications agency, Steele & Holt. He has produced several notes and reports for the Institut Montaigne and the Institut de l'Entreprise. He has also published several essays on politics, literature and music. Sylvain is a former student of the Ecole normale supérieure (Ulm), “agrégé” of classical literature and holds a PhD from La Sorbonne University.