2023 will be a year of change for Bureau Veritas. Hinda, you are set to take over as CEO after the Shareholders’ Meeting in June. What is your view of the company following your recent arrival? My first few months at Bureau Veritas were spent getting to know our wide range of business activities and skills, and interacting with the teams in the field all over the world. I went out to meet them to understand their local challenges, their vision of the company and of our mission. Thank you Didier. I will I talked to many of our clients and partners. First, indeed aim to capitalize on this legacy to continue what impressed me the most was the depth to develop the company, its talents and accelerate and the sheer breadth of our expertise in almost on the path of Sustainability where we have all sectors of the economy. Very few companies a perfectly legitimate claim to a leadership position. in the world can lay claim to this positioning. I am The climate emergency and its corollary, the need passionate about developing and demonstrating for an accelerated energy transition, imperatives the value of people, and this is at the heart of linked to Sustainability, the circular economy, Bureau Veritas’ value creation. the resilience and well-being of people within Then there are our clients: 400,000 worldwide, companies, digital transformation and supply chain spanning all continents, with one point in common traceability: both our clients and our own employees – they rely on the demanding standards and see us as increasingly relevant in all these areas. expertise of a trusted third party, who is close To address these major trends, we will still need to them and fully understands their sector, and to develop and capitalize on our teams’ knowledge, their current and future challenges. skills and adaptability on the one hand, and on Lastly, there are our 200 years of history the other, shape our service portfolio by making and at the same time our unparalleled modernity Sustainability our North Star. What we started in understanding the challenges of today with our BV Green Line of services and solutions, and tomorrow through our vision as a Business we now need to amplify, and innovation and digital to Business to Society company. This is clearly will be at the heart of the new value we will create evident in my perceptions to date of the for our clients and our other stakeholders. Group’s culture. I would like to thank the Board of Directors represented by its Chairman, Aldo Cardoso, the BV teams and the Executive Committee represented How do you see the future of BV? by Didier, as well as Wendel, our longstanding shareholder, for their trust. In June, at the The future Shareholders’ Meeting I will be humbled to stand of BV will be written by Hinda, with all the before the shareholders of a company that is company’s teams by her side. two hundred years old, and proud to have the This future will be built on solid foundations, opportunity to lead this remarkable company, the result of a profound transformation of the impactful, which has such a brilliant future. company over the last 10 years: robust digital It is with unwavering commitment that I will strive and management systems that ensure the to defend the interests of all our stakeholders organization’s agility, a strategy of geographic in keeping with the tradition of what Bureau Veritas and portfolio diversification that provides resilience has always been: a Business to Business to Society and finally, a paradigm shift in culture that reasserts company, whose ambition is to Shape a World the power of our brand as an embodiment of Trust by ensuring responsible progress. of Sustainability and trust. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our employees, clients, shareholders and partners for their contribution to Bureau Veritas’ success since 2012. We can all be proud of how far we have come, and look forward to significant growth and responsible progress in the future. Hinda, with her exceptional career path, has the right leadership qualities and vision to lead Bureau Veritas in this new chapter of its history. 8TROPER DETARGETNI 2202