Arnaud Vaissié
Founder and CEO, International SOS

Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of International SOS, the world's leading health and security services company.
International SOS is in the business of saving lives, managing health and security risks for global workforces.
After graduating from the Institute of Political Sciences of Paris (Sciences-Po), Arnaud Vaissié began his business career as a Financial Executive in France, and then moved to San Francisco as Head of Compass Inc for America.
In 1985, alongside Dr Pascal Rey-Herme, Arnaud Vaissié founded International SOS in Singapore.
Present in 90 countries, the group currently operates with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,500 medical doctors and access to over 3,200 security specialists. International SOS has over 12,000 corporate clients as well as Governments and NGOs. Since January 2020, International SOS has been at the forefront of the Covid-19 pandemic, helping clients to protect their employees and business resilience as well as organising return to work. International SOS medical and security analysts provide 24/7 information and advice on the pandemic and its assistance centres have carried out hundreds of Covid-19 related evacuations.
Arnaud Vaissié is the Honorary President of CCI France International which brings together 123 French Chambers of Commerce in 92 countries.
Board member of the Institut Montaigne, Arnaud Vaissié chairs working groups on French intermediate-sized companies. In February 2018, he published a book titled: “ETI: taille intermédiaire, gros potentiel”.
Arnaud Vaissié chairs the France-Singapore Business Council at MEDEF International, the French employers’ organisation.
He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lycée International de Londres, Winston Churchill.