Charlie Maclean-Bristol MA (Hons), PgD, FBCI, FEPS, CBCI is a Business Continuity and Crisis Management consultant and founder of an independent resilience consultancy, PlanB Consulting, and a certified training services provider, Business Continuity Training (BCT).

His first experience of contingency planning, training and incident management was as a Captain in the Kings Own Scottish Borders implementing patrols and anti-terrorist operations in Northern Ireland. After leaving the Army he joined Anglian Water as their first Emergency Planning Manager followed by Scottish Power as Business Continuity Manager. He then worked for two consultancies before setting up PlanB Consulting in 2007.

Charlie is a former Business Continuity Institute (BCI) board member and one of the very few Fellows of both the Emergency Planning Society and the Business Continuity Institute. In 2011, he was awarded Business Continuity Consultant of the year at the CIR awards and in 2018 he was BCI European Awards - Personality of the Year.

He has a PgD in Emergency Planning and Disaster Management from the University of Hertfordshire. He teaches Resilience, Continuity, and Crises Management at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Charlie has contributed to the last three editions of the BCI Good Practice Guidelines, developed BCI training courses and a cyber incident management course.