Rachel Briggs OBE is co-founder and CEO of The Clarity Factory. She is a leading expert on security and author of the report, The Business of Resilience, which has influenced the way corporations structure and position their corporate security functions. She has worked with many of the world's largest corporations, received the 2016 ISMA Outstanding Achievement Award, and is a member of the Risk and Security Management Forum (RSMF).

She has advised governments around the world on national security and counterterrorism, chaired an EU Working Group on online radicalization, and was Founding Executive Director of Hostage US and Hostage International. She was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty The Queen in 2014.