Hinda Gharbi

Hinda Gharbi was appointed CEO of Bureau Veritas in June 2023. She joined the Group in May 2022, as Chief Operating Officer, before being appointed Deputy CEO in January 2023. With a degree in Electrical Engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Électriciens de Grenoble, and a Master of Science in signal processing from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, in 1996 Hinda joined the Schlumberger group, a global technology leader in the energy sector. During her 26 years with the group, Hinda held a variety of general management positions in operations for Schlumberger’s core business activities at a global and regional level. She also assumed cross‐functional responsibilities including Human Resources, Technology Development and Health, Safety and Environment. From 2017, she was a member of the Executive Committee of Schlumberger and from July 2020, she was Executive Vice President, Services and Equipment. In this role, she headed all oil services divisions and digital topics.

Session Overview

Tuesday, 3 November

14:10

Workforce & Skills Conference Room A 14:10 - 14:30

The agility mandate: protecting continuity as roles transform

For decades, technical careers in the energy sector were defined by long-term specialisation. That model is being reshaped by automation, AI, and evolving energy systems, shifting the focus from static roles to adaptable, skills-based career pathways. The challenge now extends beyond preparing for future roles to maintaining institutional continuity as capabilities evolve over time. Role transformation occurs at the task level, as automation and new workflows reshape how work is executed. Organisations that can distinguish between enduring tasks, those requiring heightened human judgement and those reshaped by AI are better positioned to redeploy talent with speed and precision, while preserving institutional knowledge as work evolves. This requires operating frameworks that maintain safety, technical capability and institutional knowledge, while enabling the dynamic mobilisation of talent across functions and business models. The organisations that treat workforce agility as an operational discipline, instead of a change management programme, will protect continuity while competitors are still managing disruption.

Attendee Insights:
Explore the shift from static job descriptions to skills-based architectures, and examine how internal talent marketplaces and task-level redesign enable rapid redeployment while preserving institutional knowledge.