Hinda Gharbi

Hinda Gharbi became CEO of Bureau Veritas in January 2024, the first woman to lead the nearly 200-year-old French testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) company. Bureau Veritas operates across 140 countries, providing conformity assessment services that ensure products, assets, and management systems meet regulatory standards and quality requirements. The company's services span building and infrastructure certification, food safety testing, marine classification, industrial inspection, consumer product testing, and sustainability assurance. Bureau Veritas benefits from powerful secular trends: increasing regulatory complexity globally, growing sustainability and ESG reporting requirements, supply chain risk management needs, and digital transformation creating new testing needs. The TIC industry is also structurally attractive — it's non-cyclical, generates recurring revenue from mandatory testing, and benefits from high barriers to entry (accreditation, reputation, global network). Gharbi's key decisions involve sustainability services growth, digital transformation of inspection processes, M&A in fragmented TIC niches, pricing strategy, and operational efficiency across the global network.