Charles McLean is the Founder and Managing Director of the Borderless Consulting Group. He is a senior public affairs and communications consultant specializing in international government communications. Mr. McLean formerly served as a foreign correspondent for NBC News and as Director of Communications for the World Economic Forum. Mr. McLean formed the Borderless Consulting Group after serving for nine years as a Partner with London-based Portland Communications, during which time he headed Portland’s New York office and led Portland’s on-site communications teams in Astana, Kazakhstan; Amman, Jordan; and Doha, Qatar. At the World Economic Forum, Mr. McLean organized exclusive gatherings for top international journalists at Davos. His guests at these events included Bill Gates, Thabo Mbeki, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Qatar’s Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, and Kofi Annan. Mr. McLean began his career as a broadcast journalist with NBC News. During his fifteen years with the network he covered news in 57 countries and served for five years as Africa Bureau Chief. In 1990 he directed the network’s coverage of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Out of Africa, Mr. McLean won an Emmy Award for his work as a correspondent in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square uprising.