Oliver Abadie
Director, Downstream Europe
IHS CERA
Location: Paris
Expertise: Oil & Gas
Abadie focuses on short- and long-term analysis of crude oil and refined products markets, transportation and refinery investment. Abadie’s expertise covers economic conditions, global oil demand and supply trends, their influence on oil and product prices, and the implied strategic challenges.
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Farid Abolfathi, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Global Macroeconomics & Country Risk
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, DC
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Country Risk
Abolfathi has more than 20 years of experience in country risk analysis and macroeconomic forecasting. His expertise also includes Middle Eastern economics. In 1995, Abolfathi led a team of researchers who developed the conceptual framework for assessing risk to investment and business operations that has become the core component of IHS Global Insight's Global Risk Service. He holds several degrees, including a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is fluent in English, Farsi, and Spanish.
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Irena Agalliu
Managing Consultant
IHS
Location: Houston, TX
Expertise: Energy
Agalliu is an expert in energy law, economics, worldwide oil and gas fiscal arrangements, and regulatory and aboveground risk management in relation to the exploration and production industry. Agalliu holds a Masters of Laws in petroleum law, policy and economics from the University of Dundee, and a law degree from the University of Houston.
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Rafael Amiel, Ph.D.
Regional Managing Director, Latin America & Caribbean Country Risk
IHS Global Insight
Location: Eddystone, Pa.
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Latin America and the Caribbean
Amiel is responsible for coordinating the analysis and forecasts of IHS Global Insight economists and analysts who cover 42 countries in this region, including the Caribbean islands. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Florida International University (FIU), where he also served as adjunct professor of economics and was a research associate in FIU's Latin American and Caribbean Center. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
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Guy Anderson
Editor, Jane's Defence Industry
IHS Jane's
Location: Coulsdon, UK
Expertise: Defense industry
Anderson also is editor of Jane’s Industry Quarterly and Jane’s World Defence Industry, and managing editor of Jane’s Defence Budgets. Anderson is an award-winning investigative and financial journalist with experience in defense mergers and acquisitions. He is a United Kingdom Defense Forum associate and Royal United Services Institute contributor.
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Gustav Ando
Manager, Pricing & Reimbursement & Oncology Service
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Healthcare – Oncology
Ando is an experienced pharma industry analyst whose expertise includes market access strategies, reimbursement tools, research and development, corporate strategy, drug safety, and drug pricing. He has a graduate degree from the University of Uppsala (Sweden) specializing in healthcare politics.
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John Anton
Manager, Steel Service
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, DC
Expertise: Steel industry
In addition to producing regular forecasts of steel production, demand, and price, Anton is responsible for managing IHS Global Insight’s relationship with major steel clients, including some of the largest mills in the United States, Japan, and Europe. He has an economics degree from Florida State University and a law degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary.
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Howard Archer
Chief Economist, Eurozone & United Kingdom
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: European economy
Archer is the managing director of Western forecasting and analysis. Archer manages a team of economists responsible for Western European macroeconomics work. He holds a doctorate in multinational businesses from the University of Reading.
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Tim Armstrong
Director, Asia, Middle East & Africa Automotive Research
IHS Global Insight
Location: Paris
Expertise: Automotive – Asia, Middle East, and Africa
Armstrong has nearly 20 years' experience in analyzing and forecasting emerging markets. In the course of his career, he has covered more than 40 of the world's automotive markets and from 1997 to 2007 headed IHS Global Insight's East European automotive market research. He developed and introduced the Middle East and Africa Forecast Service in 2003.  Educated in Australia, Armstrong has undergraduate degrees from Murdoch University and Curtin University and a graduate degree in economics from the University of Western Australia. His languages include English, French, and Spanish.
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James Auger
Director, Country Intelligence Products
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Country Intelligence – North America/Global
In addition to developing the company's country analysis and economic services, Auger writes on North American and global issues. The latter include trade and environmental diplomacy, food security, and the work of international organizations. Prior to joining IHS Global Insight, James worked for the European Commission in Brussels, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament in Geneva. He holds a MSc in European politics and policy from the London School of Economics and an MA in social and political science from Cambridge University.
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Jed Bailey
Managing Director, Emerging Markets
IHS CERA
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Expertise: Emerging energy markets
Bailey is an expert in energy markets in developing countries, with specialties in market fundamentals, regulatory structure and strategic planning. He works closely with IHS CERA clients on the investment climate and strategy in Asia and Latin America and is available to provide comments and expertise to the media on Latin America and Energy Markets.
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Nariman Behravesh, Ph.D.
Chief Economist
IHS
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Global economy
Behravesh directs the entire forecasting process for the United States, Europe, Japan and China. Behravesh is rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the world’s top forecasters.
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Brian A. Bethune, Ph.D.
Chief U.S. Financial Economist, U.S. Macroeconomics Group
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: U.S. financial markets
Bethune specializes in the Federal Reserve System; monetary policy and credit markets; equity, bond and currency markets; government policies; business investment and inflation; and cost pressures.
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Paul Bingham
Director, World Trade & Transportation Markets
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, DC
Expertise: International Trade and Transportation
Bingham is responsible for all international products and consulting capabilities. Bingham has over 25 years of experience managing and performing freight transportation and international trade analyses, and has been a valued member of the Trade and Transportation Group since 1999. In addition, he has also led transportation and infrastructure study projects for a significant number of public- and private-sector clients.
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Jeremy Binnie
Editor, Jane's Terrorism and Security Monitor
IHS Jane's
Location: Coulsdon, UK
Expertise: International terrorism
Binnie is the company’s terrorism and insurgency senior analyst and the first in-house analyst with Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre. Binnie is an expert in security issues and unconventional warfare with particular focus on the international terrorist threat posed by radical Islamist groups.
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Nick Blackmore
Editor, Safety at Sea International
Lloyd's Register-Fairplay
Location: UK
Expertise: Maritime safety
Blackmore is the editor of Safety at Sea International (SASI) which has been the world's only magazine dedicated to maritime safety for nearly 40 years. Before joining SASI in December 2008, Nick was the editor of Seafarer, the magazine of the maritime charity, The Marine Society & Sea Cadets. He was nominated for the Desmond Wettern Media Award at the 2008 Maritime Media Awards for his work on the title.
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Aaron Brady
Director, Research, Global Oil
IHS CERA
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Expertise: Global oil markets
Brady is an expert in the global oil market, including downstream price dynamics, political and regulatory influences, and economic trends. His analyses focus on the fundamentals of the North American refined product markets and on energy/environmental legislation and regulatory issues, including the role of alternative fuels. He is available to the media to provide his expertise on biofuels and downstream oil activities.
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Aaron Bragman
Research Analyst, Automotive
IHS Global Insight
Location: Troy, Mich.
Expertise: North American automotive industry
Bragman has worked as a production buyer at Nissan North America and as a sales/program manager at Robert Bosch Automotive. He has authored an automotive column and served as captain of the University of Michigan solar car team.
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Lysle Brinker
Senior Vice President, Co-Director, Equity Research
IHS Herold
Location: Norwalk, Conn.
Expertise: International integrated oil companies, global oil & gas economics
Brinker directs coverage of the international integrated oil companies and manages the company’s financial and operations database, which contains comprehensive data on more than 400 energy companies worldwide.
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Nick Brown
Editor-in-Chief, Jane's International Defence Review
IHS Jane’s
Location: Coulsdon, UK
Expertise: Land and naval warfare
Brown manages the IHS Jane’s land forces news desk. He is interested in military strategy and tactics, military vehicles, ballistic missile defense, naval force development and nuclear weapons.
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James Burkhard
Managing Director, Global Oil Group
IHS CERA
Location: Washington, DC
Expertise: Global oil strategies and conditions
Burkhard is focused on exploration and production strategy, upstream technology, and short- and long-term analysis of crude oil and refined products markets. He is coauthor of IHS CERA’s World Oil Watch.
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Dick Buttigieg
Director of Consulting, Global Automotive Group
IHS Global Insight
Location: Paris
Expertise: Automotive – Global
Buttigieg is responsible for designing, constructing, and delivering consulting services, multi-client studies, and customized business development tools to meet the evolving needs of the automotive aftermarket. He has significant automotive experience with a background in vehicle and component manufacturers and distributors. Buttigieg is fluent in English and French.
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David Cain
Senior Director, Environmental Solutions
IHS
Location: Mountain View, Calif.
Expertise: Greenhouse gas information management and technology
Cain is responsible for the functionality and content of IHS environmental information management solutions, with more than 20 years of experience in the energy and environmental industries, as well as the electric utilities industry with specialization in climate change. At IHS, Cain pioneered the development of an enterprise greenhouse gas information management system that is now in use by companies in 60 countries to manage greenhouse gas calculations and reporting as well as emissions trading programs. Cain has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
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Jeannine Cataldi
Senior Economist, Director, Real Estate Industry Service
IHS Global Insight
Location: Eddystone, Pa.
Expertise: Macroeconomics – U.S. Regional
Cataldi's responsibilities include forecasting and analysis of state and metropolitan areas. She also focuses on the economies of Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. With the company since 1998, she has a graduate degree in applied economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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Edmund Chew
Managing Director, SupplierBusiness
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – SupplierBusiness
Chew is Managing Director of SupplierBusiness, an IHS Global Insight company, which provides a comprehensive overview of the trends and issues affecting the global automotive supplier sector. In addition, SupplierBusiness also compiles and publishes reports and databases on the global automotive supply base, and analyzes the purchasing and product development strategies of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
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Regan Chambers
Director, Jane's DS Forcast
IHS Jane's
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Defense industry, defense market forecasts
Chambers is director of Jane’s DS Forecast Analysis Group drawing on the resources of Jane's DS Forecast to provide analysis and insight into developments in the aerospace and defense industry. He served in Naval Intelligence with the U.S. Navy for 28 years, reaching the rank of captain, after which he gained several years experience in business intelligence in the financial services market.
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Matthew Clements
Eurasia Analyst
IHS Jane’s
Location: Coulsdon, UK
Expertise: Eurasia security and politics
Clements is a specialist in the areas of political instability, organized crime, terrorism and insurgency, international relations and armed conflict within the former Soviet Union and Afghanistan. Clements earned both undergraduate and master’s degrees at the war studies department at King’s College London.
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Charles Clowdis
Managing Director of North American Markets
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: North America Trade and Transportation
Clowdis is responsible for the  IHS Global Insight North America Trade and Transportation group's U.S. and Canadian products and consulting capabilities. He has extensive experience in transportation, logistics, motor-carrier transportation, fleet operations, and supply-chain design and management. He holds degrees from Young Harris College and the University of Georgia (United States). Prior to joining IHS Global Insight, Clowdis served as a vice president of marketing and held other executive positions at major transportation corporations in addition to founding his own consulting firm.
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Colin Couchman
Director of European Light-Vehicle Forecast Research
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – Europe
Couchman specializes in European sales forecasting, manufacturer model program strategies, and vehicle segmentation analysis. His responsibilities include the European Light-Vehicle Industry Forecast Service, East European Automotive Industry Forecast Service, World Car Sales Forecast Service, and Global Bodystyle Sales Database. Couchman also oversees international bespoke forecasting projects for major clients. Couchman has more than 12 years of direct experience in forecasting trends in the European automotive industry. He holds an MBA in international management and a BA (Hons) in economic history and politics, both from the University of London.
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Vera de Ladoucette
Senior Vice President and Senior Director
IHS CERA
Location: Paris
Expertise: Oil and gas
De Ladoucette leads the IHS CERA Middle East research team. Her expertise includes international relations and energy issues, and the impact of Mideast developments on the world oil market. She has held posts in both industry and in the Ministry of Industry for the French Government, and was honored with the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.
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Tom De Vleesschauwer
Associate Director & Senior Consultant
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – Europe Powertrain, Emissions, and Regulations
De Vleesschauwer is responsible for both business and technical consulting projects in the automotive industry in Europe. He has more than 13 years' experience in the international automotive industry and has contributed to many special projects, including the 42 Volts study (1999), Future Powertrain Technologies (2000), Diesel Particulate Filter (2001), Future Powertrain Technologies (2000, 2004, 2007), Automotive Sourcing Strategies (2002), and Niche Vehicle Market (2003). More recently his work included areas such as biofuels market potential, CO2 forecasting evaluations, and future mobility outlooks. De Vleesschauwer has an MBA from the Cardiff Business School at the University of Wales.
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James Diffley
Group Managing Director, U.S. Regional Services
IHS Global Insight
Location: Eddystone, Pa.
Expertise: Macroeconomics – U.S. Regional 
Diffley is responsible for the Core Regional Macroeconomic Service and the IHS Global Insight Real Estate & Construction Service. He supervises the quarterly economic forecast of the 50 U.S. states and more than 300 U.S. metropolitan areas. Diffley is also responsible for customized consulting projects. He did his Ph.D. training in economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, completing all requirements but the dissertation.
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Andrew Ellis
Managing Director, European Energy Markets
IHS Global Insight
Location: Paris
Expertise: Energy – Europe
Ellis has extensive experience in all areas of energy analysis, pricing and forecasting, with particular expertise in Europe's natural gas, electricity, hydro and hydrogen markets. He has an honors degree in Economics from Nottingham University and a graduate degree in Environmental Technology (Energy Policy) from Imperial College, London.
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Peter Felstead
Editor, Jane's Defence Weekly
IHS Jane's
Location: Coulsdon, UK
Expertise: Defense
Felstead has a broad, top-down view of defense matters and deals with most defense issues, including major platforms and programs, current operational deployments and modern military history.
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Sharon Fisher, Ph.D.
Senior Economist, Country Intelligence
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Central Europe and the Balkans
Fisher focuses mainly on Central Europe and the Balkans. In that role, she conducts economic and political analysis, risk assessment, and forecasting, while also working on the development of a new labor cost-analyzer product. Fisher's extensive list of publications includes the 2006 book Political Change in Post-Communist Slovakia and Croatia: From Nationalist to Europeanist (from Palgrave Macmillan). She has a Ph.D. from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College, London.
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Pascual Francisco
Senior Market Analyst
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Automotive – Latin America
Francisco specializes in sales and production forecasting, manufacturer regional strategies, exports, investments, and automotive bilateral trade agreements. He has eight years of experience in strategies, exports, trade and investments, and extensive experience in forecasting trends in the Latin American market, particularly, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. He has an MBA in investments from Pace University in New York City.
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Bob Fryklund
Vice President, Global Exploration and Production Analysis
IHS
Location: Houston, TX
Expertise: Upstream oil and gas
Fryklund is an expert on upstream oil and gas. With more than 28 years of industry experience, he advises clients on how to improve their businesses by reviewing portfolios and developing strategies to take advantage of market opportunities.
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Richard Fullenbaum, Ph.D.
Senior Managing Director of Business Development
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: U.S. Government – Policy and Healthcare
RFullenbaum specializes in the U.S. federal government and its involvement in policy-related research and applications, including healthcare. His considerable experience in economic policy analysis and the application of economic principles to a diverse set of activities includes serving in the Office of Management and Budget under three U.S. presidents. Fullenbaum has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.
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Nigel Gault, Ph.D.
Chief U.S. Economist
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: U.S. economy
Gault is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the macroeconomic forecast and analysis of the U.S. economy. Gault holds a graduate degree in economics from Cambridge University and a doctorate in economics from Harvard University.
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Lauren Gelfand
Africa and Middle East Editor, Jane's Defence Weekly
IHS Jane's
Location: Coulsdon, UK
Expertise: African and Middle Eastern military geopolitics
Gelfand covers all aspects of African and Middle Eastern military geopolitics, including African peacekeeping forces and any developments of the U.S. military’s AFRICOM initiative.
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Michael Gething, AMRAeS
Editor, Jane's Electro-Optic Systems
IHS Jane's
Location: Coulsdon, UK
Expertise: Air power, EO/IR technology, historic military aircraft
Gething also is the contributing editor of Jane's International Defence Review. He served in the Royal Air Force reserves and has authored many books, including "Sky Guardians - RAF Air Defence 1918-98" and the military section of Jane's Aircraft Recogntion Guide.
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Bob Gillon
Senior Vice President and Co-Director, Herold Equity Research
IHS Herold
Location: Norwalk, Conn.
Expertise: Oil and gas investments
Gillon directs coverage of exploration and production companies. He also is responsible for the weekly Herold Oil & Gas Perspectives and is the author of Herold’s quarterly and year-end analysis of oil and gas company stock market performance.
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James Gillula, Ph.D.
Managing Director, U.S. Government Consulting
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: U.S. Government Consulting
Gillula works with IHS Global Insight’s federal government clients to help them plan for the impact of economic growth and change on government programs. Also, he assists trade associations by providing economic impact analysis and industry forecasting models. His primary areas of expertise are labor economics, demographics, consumer demand modeling, and housing economics. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University.
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Anna Gilmour
Senior Analyst, Americas and Organized Crime
IHS Jane’s
Location: London
Expertise: Organized crime, Latin America
Gilmour examines trends in organized crime, such as areas of operation, tactics and transnational networks. She also specializes in Latin American politics and security, insurgency, and economic and social risk. Gilmour also is deputy editor of Jane’s Intelligence Review.
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Phillip G. Gott
Director, Automotive Custom Solutions
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Automotive – Powertrain
Gott is Director he specializes in identifying technical and competitive advantages, and creating and implementing technical, business, and market entry strategies. Gott has more than 30 years' experience with the automotive industry.
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Nigel Griffiths
Managing Director, European Car & Light Commercial Vehicle Forecast
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – European Car and Light Commercial Vehicle
Griffiths specializes in production forecasting, manufacturer model program strategies, and European car park analysis. He has more than 13 years of direct experience in forecasting trends in the European and global automotive industry. He has received numerous awards for study and analysis, including the Alexander Duckhams Prize of the Institute of the Motor Industry. He holds an MBA from Cardiff Business School, where he specialized in the economics of the motor industry.
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Terry Hallmark, Ph.D.
Director, Political Risk and Policy Assessment
IHS
Location: Houston, TX
Expertise: Energy security
Hallmark is an expert on geopolitics, energy security and aboveground risks that adversely affect upstream oil and gas operations. He has established an impressive record of accurately predicting future political events and contingencies. > Return to IHS Expert list

Katherine Hardin
Senior Director, Russian & Caspian Energy Markets
IHS CERA
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Expertise: Central Asian, Russian and Caspian oil and gas markets
Hardin leads energy and investment research on issues affecting the former Soviet Union. Hardin has focused most recently on energy sector development in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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Caitlin Harrington
Avation Reporter, Washington Bureau
IHS Jane's
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Defense, security and energy resource issues
Harrington is an expert on aerospace technology, and proficient in U.S. defense budget issues, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and U.S. homeland security. She has written on possible conflict stemming from energy scarcity and limited resources, and has a master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
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Bruce Harrison
Associate Director of Consulting Activities
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Automotive – North America
Harrison specializes in providing client solutions through the combined use of IHS Global Insight datasets and primary research, and has developed and manages a unique-in-the-industry market analytical tool for tires using multiple, disparate data sources. He has more than 25 years of industry experience and is a member of the Society of Automotive Analysts and the Society of Automotive Engineers. He has been formally trained in diesel mechanics and has attended the Ford Marketing Institute. He is a member and licensed driver in the Grand American Rolex Race Series, NASCAR, and the SCC.
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David Hartwell
Analyst, North Africa & Middle East
IHS Jane's
Location: London
Expertise: Middle Eastern and North Africa security
Hartwell is well-informed on Israel and Palestinian security and political Issues. He worked for the U.K Ministry of Defense, and has a master’s degree in war studies from King’s College in London.
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J. Scott Hazelton
Director of Construction Services
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Construction Services
Hazelton is responsible for IHS Global Insight's U.S. national and state, Canadian provincial, and global construction forecasts. His areas of expertise include housing, consumer spending and credit, building materials, and construction equipment. He began his forecasting career with the housing sector more than 20 years ago. He is a graduate in economics from Bates College (United States).
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Chris Herbert
Editor, Jane's Police Review
IHS Jane's
Location: London
Expertise: Policing and crime
Herbert is an expert on policing in the United Kingdom. He began his career as a news reporter and editor for newspapers within the U.K. He graduated with honors from Manchester University and then completed a post-graduate diploma in journalism.
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David Hobbs
Head of Global Research
IHS CERA
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Expertise: Oil and gas
Hobbs is the author of such significant company studies, such as In Search of Reasonable Certainty: Oil and Gas Reserves Disclosures (a pioneering analysis of the problem of assessing reserves) and Modernizing Oil and Gas Disclosures.
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Chris Holling
Executive Managing Director of Business Planning Solutions
IHS Global Insight
Location: Toronto
Expertise: Business Economics and Custom Solutions
Holling specializes in working with clients to integrate independent, forward-looking analysis such as sales benchmarking, market planning, risk analysis, and impact studies into their strategic and tactical planning processes. Holling holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
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David Iaia
Managing Director, U.S. Regional Services Group
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Macroeconomics – U.S. Regional
Iaia oversees the state, county, and metro forecasts for more than 3,100 U.S. counties and 300 U.S. metropolitan areas. He produces analyses on the cost of doing business in the various states and on the importance of metropolitan areas in the national economy. He manages the group's Boston-area staff and is the primary analyst for the southeastern United States, including Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. He did his Ph.D. training at Brown University, completing all requirements but the dissertation.
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Robert Ineson
Senior Director, North American Natural Gas
IHS CERA
Location: Houston
Expertise: North American gas markets
Ineson has expertise in gas exploration and production, gathering and processing, intrastate and interstate pipelines, gas distribution, electric power, and mergers and acquisitions. He specializes in analysis of North American gas markets, natural gas pricing, liquefied natural gas market development and corporate strategy.
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Claire Innes
Managing Director, Asia-Pacific Division
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Asia-Pacific
Innes oversees production of analytical content for the region, including economic forecasts and risk assessment. She holds graduate degrees from Edinburgh University and the London School of Economics.
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Milena Izmirlieva
Project Manager, Generics Service
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Healthcare - Generics
Izmirlieva is an experienced pharma industry analyst and a regular speaker at generics conferences. Her areas of expertise are generics and biosimilars market access issues, pricing and reimbursement, corporate strategies, and pharmaceuticals promotion and advertising. She holds a MS degree from Iowa State University and is fluent in Bulgarian and Russian.
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Peter M. Jackson, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Oil Industry Activity
IHS CERA
Location: London
Expertise: Oil and gas
Jackson is an authority on oil and gas production, exploration and future trends. He is the principal author of several IHS CERA reports, including Why the Peak Oil Theory Falls Down—Myths, Legends and the Future of Oil Resources.
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Tom Jackson
Senior Economist
IHS Global Insight
Location: Eddystone, Pa.
Expertise: Agriculture
Jackson is responsible for the forecasts of U.S. and International livestock and U.S. farm income, and does industry impact analyses, policy analyses, and various consulting projects. He has 15 years' experience in the economic analysis industry and has a graduate degree in agricultural economics from The Ohio State University.
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Marilyn Johnson
Director, Environmental Initiatives and Sustainability
IHS
Location: Lake Oswego, Ore.
Expertise: Environmental health
Johnson is focused on “greening” the supply chain to reduce toxins in the environment. She provides IHS solutions to help customers in this area. She also speaks frequently on the topics of greening, chemical management, and tools for hazardous chemicals reduction.
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Sara Johnson
Managing Director, Global Macroeconomics
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Global Macroeconomics and Consumer Markets
Johnson is responsible for advising clients on worldwide business opportunities and risks. She is also Chief Economist for the Consumer Markets practice, which forecasts and interprets economic and demographic trends affecting retailers, consumer products companies, and financial institutions. Her areas of expertise include the U.S. and global economic outlooks, consumer spending and finances, exchange rates and interest rates, economic impacts of oil prices, and the global construction industry outlook. She holds degrees in economics from Wellesley College and Harvard University.
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Karanta Kalley
Managing Director, Country Intelligence Africa Group
IHS Global Insight
Location: Eddystone, Pa.
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Sub-Saharan Africa
Kalley is responsible for macroeconomic forecasts and risk analysis in sub-Saharan Africa. He has more than 15 years' experience in business and macroeconomic forecasting. He holds a graduate degree from the State University of New York and did his doctoral work at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
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Mark Killion
Managing Director, World Industry Services
IHS Global Insight
Location: Eddystone, Pa.
Expertise: World Industry Services
Killion is responsible for global market analysis and forecasts of financial and industry sectors around the world. With more than 15 years of experience, his expertise includes quantitative research, financial modeling, and international investment analysis. He has a graduate degree in monetary economics from Boston University. He is conversant in Japanese and Spanish.
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Ray Kizer
Regional Manager, Offshore Gulf of Mexico
IHS
Location: Houston
Expertise: Oil and gas, Gulf of Mexico deepwater offshore and trends
Kizer is an expert on upstream oil activity in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico, and manages editors, well scouts, analysts and cartographers focused on the region.
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Kenneth J. Kremar
Principal, Industry Practices Group
IHS Global Insight
Location: New York
Expertise: Capital Goods and Freight Transportation
Kremar is responsible for capital goods and freight transportation research. He publishes monthly reports on the truck and trailer industries and a quarterly report covering the freight car industry. He is the author of the “U.S. Freight Transportation Forecast” and provides detailed analysis of the machinery and off-highway equipment markets for the American Trucking Association's publication. He has an MBA from Wagner College in New York.
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John Kruse, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Agricultural Services
IHS Global Insight
Location: Columbia, Mo.
Expertise: Agriculture
Kruse is responsible for managing a team of agriculture economists that provides commodity market and regulatory insight to agri-business, government agencies, trade associations, executives, and researchers. IHS Global Insight's Agriculture Group identifies emerging economic and political forces shaping global agriculture, including trends in biofuels, crops, livestock, farm income, and trade policies. Kruse has a Ph.D. in agriculture economics from the University of Missouri – Columbia.
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Robert LaCount
Senior Director, Climate Change and Clean Energy Group
IHS CERA
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Oil and gas, climate change
LaCount is an authority on environmental policy and strategy, climate change legislation and regulation, and emissions trading. His expertise includes future clean energy scenarios, global energy scenarios and environmental analysis by region and energy source.
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Paul Lacy
Manager, Technical Research, Americas
IHS Global Insight
Location: Troy, Mich.
Expertise: Automotive – North America Powertrain
Lacy directs the research, analysis, and forecasting team that focuses on powertrain and other automotive component-parts manufacturing data for North and South America. He has more than 15 years' experience in automotive industry research and analysis, and his work has included major truck platforms, light vehicles, and a variety of component parts and materials research. Prior to joining IHS Global Insight, Lacy was a senior analyst of supplier quality and tiered supplier risk management at General Motors.
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Christian LeMiere
Editor, Jane's Intelligence Review & Managing Editor, Jane's Country Risk
IHS Jane's
Location: London
Expertise: Asian security and politics
Le Mière specializes in Asian defense and security, including the rise of China and regional non-state armed groups. Le Mière holds two master’s degrees: The University of Oxford in philosophy and politics; and King’s College, London, in war studies.
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Mark Lauritano
Managing Director, Financial Services Custom Solutions
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Financial Services
Lauritano is responsible for directing consulting projects to enable clients—in investment companies, banks, insurance companies, real estate firms, and businesses supporting financial institutions, such as card associations, credit bureaus, and rating agencies—to respond to changing market conditions. He has 25 years' experience in financial services and holds an MBA in finance from Boston University.
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Natalia Leshchenko
Senior Analyst, Country Intelligence
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Russia and CIS
Leshchenko is an expert on politics in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) nations. She has provided expert advice on developments in the region to professional and academic conferences and to the foreign offices of the United Kingdom and Canada. She holds a doctoral degree in politics from the London School of Economics.
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Todd C. Lee, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Greater China Division
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Greater China
Lee oversees all aspects of the macroeconomic forecasts and analysis of the Greater China economy. He is responsible for product development and enhancements to meet the surging market interest in China. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University and is fluent in Chinese and English.
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Stuart Lewis
Director, International Regional Teams
IHS
Location: London
Expertise: Middle East, International oil and gas
Lewis has experience in exploration (deepwater, high-impact plays) and with national oil companies in the Middle East. Lewis has worked in the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
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Rebecca Lindland
Director, Automotive Research
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Automotive – The Americas
Lindland is responsible for the monthly U.S., Canadian and Mexican sales forecasts for the IHS Global Insight light-vehicle forecast report. Lindland has experience in such areas as industry outlook, new products, sales and marketing strategies, consumer and safety issues, and demographic trends.
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Sabine Machenheimer
Africa Editor
IHS Jane's
Location: London
Expertise: Security, sub-Saharan Africa
Machenheimer writes and edits for Jane’s Sentinel, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Jane’s Foreign Report and Jane’s Country Risk Daily Report. She covers security and political developments in sub-Saharan Africa.
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George Magliano
Director, North American Automotive Research
IHS Global Insight
Location: New York
Expertise: Automotive – North America
Magliano is an expert on the U.S. and global economies and their impact on the North American automotive industry, including sales and production forecasts, trends and analyses. Magliano holds a master’s degree in business from Fordham University.
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Lawrence J. Makovich
Vice President and Senior Advisor, Global Power Group
IHS CERA
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Expertise: North American electric power
Makovich is an expert on the restructuring of the electric power industry, electricity markets, regulation, economics and strategy. His focus includes asset valuations and strategies and emerging technologies. Makovich has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress.
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Roman C. Mathyssek
Analyst, Manufacturer Developments
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – Trucks
Mathyssek analyzes manufacturer developments and key market trends in selected global markets covered in the World Truck Industry Forecast Report. He specializes in manufacturers' corporate strategies and financials. Mathyssek has extensive industry experience in corporate strategy, planning, and finance. He has an MBA in finance/controlling and econometrics from Maastricht University (the Netherlands).
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Gerard McCloskey
Chairman and Founder of The McCloskey Group
IHS
Location: London
Expertise: Energy, coal
McCloskey is an expert in the international coal markets and founder of The McCloskey Group, which specializes in news, data and analysis on coal worldwide. McCloskey has addressed European and British parliamentary assemblies and specialist committees on all aspects of the coal industry, markets and regulations.
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John Mothersole
Principal, Industry Practices Group
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Pricing and Purchasing
Mothersole is the nonferrous metals analyst. He also helps supervise the Pricing and Purchasing Service's price and wage forecasts and the construction cost and operation and maintenance costs forecasts prepared by the group's Power Planner Service. He has a graduate degree in economics from the University of Maryland.
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Charles Movit
Research Director, Emerging Europe
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Russia and Emerging Europe
Movit supervises forecasting and analysis of all 29 countries of the Emerging Europe region with a particular focus on Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, and Macedonia. Movit has more than 25 years' forecasting and consulting experience, including nearly 20 years devoted solely to the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He has a graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in economics with concentrations in international economics and comparative systems.
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Lindi Mulder
Principal Economic Consultant
IHS Global Insight
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Expertise: Country Intelligence – South Africa
Mulder specializes in macroeconometric impact assessments—with specific specialization in input-output analysis (social accounting matrices), sectoral multipliers, and cost-benefit analysis. She has more than 10 years of experience in this particular field of economic modeling and holds a post-graduate degree in econometrics from the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
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Robert Munks
Americas Analyst
IHS Jane's
Location: London
Expertise: Americas international security
Munks is an expert in international relations and political risk, specializing in Latin America, the Caribbean, and U.S. foreign and security policy. He also has worked extensively on trans-national issues, including counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism.
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Jyoti Narasimhan
Research Director
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Country Intelligence – India
Narasimhan coordinates all aspects of the macroeconomic forecast and analysis of India's economy, and is responsible for developing current and future opportunities relating to India's promising market. She has a graduate degree in economics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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Patrick Newport, Ph.D.
U.S. Economist, Investment and Housing Sectors
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: U.S. Macroeconomics
Newport is responsible for tracking the investment and housing sectors. Newport serves as director of long-term forecasting in the U.S. macroeconomics group. He holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University.
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Paul Newton
Research Manager, Automotive Group
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – Global
Newton is often quoted in industry and mainstream press and appears regularly on international TV and radio to give expert analysis on the auto industry and markets. He is a graduate of the journalism program of Surrey University Institute and has worked for VW Group, Saab, and Austin Rover.
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Mary H. Novak
Managing Director, North American Energy Services
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Energy, North America
Novak is responsible for the company's global environmental consulting unit. Novak has expertise in North American fossil fuel and electric power market and environmental policy analyses. She has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland.
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Tate Nurkin
Director, Jane's Strategic Advisory Services
IHS Jane's
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: International security
Nurkin is an expert on international security issues, specifically emerging threats to U.S. and allied interests and assets. Nurkin spent more than 12 years in support of the United States intelligence and defense communities.> Return to IHS Expert list

Ronèl Oberholzer
South African Country Economist
IHS Global Insight
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Expertise: Country Intelligence – South Africa
Oberholzer is responsible for developing and maintaining IHS Global Insight's South African macro models and developing the economic outlook and risk profile for South Africa. Oberholzer has worked in the macroeconomic and econometric field in both the private and public sector for over 15 years. She specializes in macroeconometric model building as well as macroeconomic analyses. She has a graduate degree in economics from The Orange Freestate University (South Africa) and is fluent in Afrikaans and English.
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Carina O'Reilly
Europe Analyst, Jane's Country Risk
IHS Jane's
Location: London
Expertise: European politics and political affairs
O’Reilly is an expert on security, politics and terrorism for Western and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey. She contributes to Jane’s Sentinel, Jane’s Foreign Report and Jane’s Country Risk Daily Report. She has co-authored several books and articles. O’Reilly graduated from Cambridge in social and political sciences and holds a master’s in strategic studies.
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John Parry
Vice President, Senior Equity Analyst
IHS Herold
Location: Norwalk, Conn.
Expertise: Downstream operations and companies
Parry covers major international integrated and petrochemical companies. He is IHS Herold’s most experience analyst for independent refiners and petrochemical companies.
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Cynthia Poynter
Senior Manager, Midstream Database
IHS
Location: Geneva
Expertise: Oil and gas, midstream
Poynter is an expert on global oil and gas infrastructure, and European gas transportation, storage and supply issues. Poynter has built the database into a multimillion-dollar business with most of the world’s major oil companies as subscribers.
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Julius Pretterebner, Ph.D.
Director, Driving the Future Forum
IHS CERA
Location: Munich
Expertise: Alternative energy
Pretterebner leads research for the Driving the Future Forum, which explores fuels, propulsion technologies, technology improvements and the automotive sector’s role in transportation energy mix. Pretterebner’s expertise includes strategic planning for the adoption and integration of hybrid vehicles, alternative fuels, alternative power trains and the evolution of transportation.
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Frantz R. Price
Managing Director, Industry Practices
IHS Global Insight
Location: Edystone, Pa.
Expertise: Pricing and Purchasing
Price has primary responsibility for analysis and forecasting in the areas of pricing and purchasing. He advises corporate and government clients on the strategic implications of changes in the world economic environment. He has more than 25 years' experience in market and cost analysis and holds a graduate degree in economics from the City University of New York.
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Allison Puccioni
Imagery Analyst
IHS Jane's
Location: San Francisco, Calif.
Expertise: Imagergy and geospatial analysis
Puccioni is an expert in remotely sensed imagery and geospatial intelligence.  She was honoured for her innovative intelligence in response to Sept 11 and has been recognised by the Department of Defense and US and international forces for her outstanding strategic and tactical analysis.
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Simon Pugh
Director, Engineering Sciences Data Unit
IHS
Location: London
Expertise: Oil and gas refining technologies
Pugh leads the IHS unit that provides data, methods and software for design operations to companies worldwide. Pugh is an expert on oil and gas refining technologies, and is the author of six engineering design software programs.> Return to IHS Expert list

Michael J. Raimondi
Executive Managing Director, IT/Telecom Custom Solutions
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: IT & Telecoms
Raimondi is responsible for advising clients in telecommunications services and equipment companies, computer software and equipment companies, and networking and information companies on resource requirements and reallocations, network expansion plans, facility location, market segmentation, sales, and acquisition decisions. He holds a graduate degree in economics from Georgetown University.
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Stewart Ramsey
Principal and Senior Economist
IHS Global Insight
Location: Eddystone, Pa.
Expertise: Agriculture
Ramsey is responsible for forecasting and analysis of North American agriculture. He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the area of forecasting crop supply and demand conditions around the world. His work has included areas such as biofuel and its potential and impacts, trade policy, climate change, farmer behavior and adoption of technology, and measures of sustainability. He has a graduate degree in economics from the University of Delaware.
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Jan Randolph
Head of Soverign Risk Group
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Sovereign Risk
Randolph is an experienced international economist and country risk manager, and has worked for several international financial risk management firms. Randolph holds a master’s degree in economic from the University of London.> Return to IHS Expert list

Deepesh Rathore
Managing Director, India
IHS Global Insight
Location: Gurgaon, India
Expertise: Automotive, India
With nearly 10 years' experience as an automotive writer, researcher, and analyst, Rathore is responsible for all of IHS Global Insight's automotive activities in India and has oversight responsibilities for establishing a larger presence in India for other IHS Global Insight divisions and departments.
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Sheri Rhodine
Senior Director, PLC Product Marketing and Alliances
IHS
Location: Denver, Colo.
Expertise: Product lifecycle within the supply chain
Rhodine is experienced with product lifecycle management relevant to supply chain management across multiple industries in the U.S., including the issues of component obsolescence and global trade and compliance.
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Susan Ruth
Senior Director
IHS CERA
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Corporate strategy
Ruth is an expert on emerging trends that are critical to corporate and policy leaders’ strategic planning. An author and senior researcher, Ruth is principal editor of CERA's Global Energy Watch report. Her international experience in political, economic and energy analysis includes evaluating options regarding environmental risks and stakeholder issues.
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Andrew Ryan
Managing Director, European Electricity
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Energy – Europe
Ryan has extensive experience across a range of companies within the power industry, and is an expert of the economics of power generation, the complexities of system operation, and the consequences of high levels of wind generation. He has a master's degree in economics and a degree from the London School of Economics.
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Dan Ryan, Ph.D.
Research Director, Asia-Pacific
IHS Global Insight
Location: Eddystone, Pa.
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Japan and North and South Korea
Ryan covers Japan, South Korea, and North Korea, and is responsible for risk analysis and economic forecasting. He is also the coordinator for all Country Intelligence databanks. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California – Berkeley.
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Candida Scott
Director, Capital Costs Forum
IHS CERA
Location: Houston, TX
Expertise: Oil and gas capital costs
Scott oversees the IHS CERA Upstream Capital Costs Index, a propriety measure of actual cost required to construct a fixed basket of oil and gas projects, assess movements and develop strategies to manage costs.
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Chris Sheehan
Senior Vice President, Directors of Mergers and Acquisitions Research
IHS Herold
Location: Norwalk, Conn.
Expertise: Energy mergers and acquisitions
Sheehan is responsible for analysis of global upstream, midstream, downstream, oil field, power, coal and alternative energy transactions. He is the author of Herold’s annual Global Upstream M&A Review.
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Tony Skinner
Featrues Editor, Jane's Defence Weekly
IHS Jane's
Location: Coulsdon, UK
Expertise: Defense and C41 issues
Skinner is skilled in geopolitical, armed forces and defense industry issues, and has written extensively on various defense technologies, including network-centric warfare, military space, cyber warfare, directed energy weapons and C4I systems.
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Leta Smith, Ph.D.
Director, Exploration and Production Trends Forum
IHS CERA
Location: Houston, TX
Expertise: Exploration and production
Smith is an authority on upstream supply focusing on trends and challenges to exploration and production and implications to future supplies. Her expertise ranges from the reservoir to the global level, including global drilling and development forecasts, resource assessments and country licensing rounds.
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David Smith-Tilley
Director of Custom Solutions
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – Custom Solutions
Smith-Tilley has more than 20 years of experience in motor vehicle parts, vehicle, engine, and engine component consulting. He holds an honors degree in business studies from Sheffield University.
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Kristian I. Voss Sorensen
EMEA Head, Enterprise Markets
IHS
Location: Munich
Expertise: Information management and compliance
Sorensen is experienced in using information management and compliance as a strategic management tool to manage product lifecycle and mitigate risks in the energy, aerospace and defense, electronics and academic fields.
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Shankari Srinivasan
Senior Director, European Gas Research
IHS CERA
Location: Paris
Expertise: European gas markets
Srinivasan specializes in European gas market fundamentals, scenario planning, and company strategy. Srinivasan is responsible for the development of the CERA European gas analysis, including Russian gas supply and pipeline issues.
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Pete Stark, Ph.D.
Vice President, Industry Relations
IHS
Location: Denver, Colo.
Expertise: Oil and gas industry
Stark is an analyst and speaker on issues concerning hydrocarbon indicators, global unconventional oil and gas, U.S. natural gas productivity, global oil and gas resources, and global petroleum industry trends.
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Haig Stoddard
Manager, Light Vehicle Forecasting
IHS Global Insight
Location: Troy, Mich.
Expertise: Automotive – North America Production
Stoddard specializes in forecasting and analyzing automotive production in the North American market. He has 20 years of experience, initially covering the auto industry as a journalist. His analyst experience includes U.S. sales forecasts, global production forecasts and vehicle inventory projections.
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Michael Stoppard
Managing Director, Global Gas
IHS CERA
Location: London
Expertise: Liquefied natural gas
Stoppard is a specialist in the international gas business. Responsible for the CERA global and interregional analysis of liquefied natural gas, including business models and LNG trading and shipping, Stoppard led the company into LNG with the study The New Wave: Global LNG in the 21st Century. 
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Christoph B. Stuermer
Senior Market Analyst
IHS Global Insight
Location: Frankfurt
Expertise: Automotive – Europe
Stuermer is responsible for the German, Austrian, and Swiss markets. He is also responsible for multi-regional special projects. He has automotive industry experience with Daimler-Chrysler and is an economics and philosophy graduate of Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg (Germany) with a specialty in econometrics and institutional economics.
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Zbyszko Tabernacki
Executive Managing Director, Country Intelligence
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Country Intelligence – Global
Tabernacki oversees a team of economists and analysts responsible for daily coverage of 202 countries around the world. A native of Poland, he holds a graduate degree in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics and a post-graduate degree in international finance and global markets from the Georgetown Business School. He is fluent in English and Polish.
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Stephen Trammel
Senior Product Manager
IHS
Location: Denver, Colo.
Expertise: Oil and gas supply
Trammel focuses on the increasingly important role that unconventional exploration plays in the world’s oil and gas supply. Along with PetroSolutions Ltd, Trammel released a ground-breaking report on deep-water and deep-shelf drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. His expertise also centers on Gulf hurricane activity.
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Bert Turner
Vice President, Global Services
IHS
Location: Houston, TX
Expertise: Supply-chain management
Turner is an expert on materials data quality and the role it plays to supply-chain management in process industries (energy, utilities, food and beverage, metals/mining, pharmaceuticals, automotive). Turner’s expertise extends to “greening” of the supply-chain, and greenhouse gas/emissions management and sustainability.
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Mark Ulmer
Executive Managing Director, Micro Services
IHS Global Insight
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: U.S. Industry
Ulmer specializes in monitoring global commodity, wage, output, and other related indicators by sector, with expertise spanning ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and equipment, electronic components, chemicals, paper, packaging materials and healthcare.
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Alex Vatanka
Senior Middle East Analyst
IHS Jane's
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Iran, Afghanistan, Gulf Cooperation Council states
Vatanka specializes in the geopolitics of the Middle East, and the security situation in Iran, Afghanistan and the Gulf Cooperation Council states. He is the managing editor of Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst and Jane’s Intelligence Digest.> Return to IHS Expert list

Urmila Venugopalan
Asia Editor
IHS Jane's
Location: London
Expertise: Asia security and politics
Venugopalan covers political, security and intelligence developments in South and Southeast Asia. Venugopalan writes and edits for Jane’s Sentinel, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Jane’s Intelligence Digest, Jane’s Foreign Report and Jane’s Country Risk Daily Report.
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Guido Vildozo
Senior Market Analyst
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Automotive – Latin America
Vildozo is in charge of covering the automotive industry in Latin America. He is responsible for overseeing industry trends in the region and developing forecasts for the market. His area of expertise is product planning and strategy and their effect on vehicle demand. He has also overseen manufacturers' product cycles for the Americas as well as closely following trends in all markets in the Americas. He has a graduate degree in economics from Suffolk University in Boston.
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Jone-Lin Wang
Managing Director, Head of Global Power Group
IHS CERA
Location: Washington, D.C.
Expertise: Electricity, nuclear power
Wang is an expert on electricity markets, economics and strategy. Her research centers on industry structure, markets, power generation options, and nuclear power resurgence. A frequent lecturer, Wang also has expertise in business strategy and market scenarios.
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Simon Wardell
Director, Global Oil
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Energy – Global Oil
Wardell leads the company's oil analysis and forecasting and the daily online energy intelligence service World Markets Energy, which focuses on political, regulatory and security issues affecting the upstream industry. He holds a master’s degree from Exeter University, specializing in oil economics.
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Julian Watson
Director, Telecoms Practice
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Telecommunications
Watson is responsible for global market analysis of the global fixed, mobile, broadband, and converged market segments. His expertise is in the area of converged telecommunications services and intermodal competition. He has a degree in politics and Russian and speaks Russian and French.
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John C. Webb
Director, Russian and Caspian Energy
IHS CERA
Location: Moscow
Expertise: Oil and gas
Webb focuses on the Russian Federation’s oil industry, hydrocarbon production and energy policies. Webb monitors the impact of Russian politics and economics on energy-project investment. His research also covers Russian petroleum mergers and acquisitions, smaller oil producers, and crude transportation and exportation.
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Paul Webber
Regional Manager, Northwest Europe
IHS
Location: London
Expertise: Oil and gas, Northwest Europe
Webber leads a staff of editors, analysts and researchers who report on all aspects of the upstream industry in Northwest Europe, which includes the U.K. North Sea, Ireland, Greenland and Iceland. Webber earned a master’s in petroleum geoscience from the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College.
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John Wolkonowicz
Manager, North American Auto Forecasting
IHS Global Insight
Location: Lexington, Mass.
Expertise: Automotive – North America
Wolkonowicz has experience in automotive technology, demographics, and competitive analysis and strategy. He also has experience in product development and planning at Ford Motor Co. Wolkonowicz holds a master’s degree in management from MIT.
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Michael Wynn-Williams, Ph.D.
Senior Market Analyst
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – Japan and South Korea
Wynn-Williams has done extensive research on the automotive industry, its organizational structure, economies of scale of production, and international joint ventures. He spent six years working in Japan and has a working knowledge of Japanese. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Cardiff Business School in Wales.
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Mark Wysong
Vice President, Environment
IHS
Location: Denver, Colo.
Expertise: Environment
Wysong helps companies make operational improvements to improve human, environmental and corporate health. “The Nontoxic CEO” author leads a nationwide initiative in this regard. His division also offers tools, such as the Wysong-developed Dolphin Safe Source software, which helps companies identify hazardous chemicals.
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Tianshu Xin
Director of Global Technical Research
IHS Global Insight
Location: London
Expertise: Automotive – Powertrain and Driveline
Xin is responsible for global powertrain and driveline forecasts and analysis. He has more than 15 years of extensive consulting and market research experience and an exceptional track record of achievement within a wide range of engineering industries. His work has included areas such as market-entry strategy, business development strategy, technology trends, consumer behavior, and effects of government policy. Tianshu has a BEng (Hons) in industry electric automation and also an MBA from Manchester Business School (United Kingdom).
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K.F. Yan
Director
IHS CERA
Location: Beijing
Expertise: Chinese oil and gas
Yan is a member of the company’s China Energy research team. Yan has 18 years of experience in the Chinese oil and gas industry, specializing in operations strategy, project development and policy. He is an expert on the analysis of Chinese oil demand, refining and industry regulation.
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John (Zhiling) Zeng
Senior Market Analyst
IHS Global Insight
Location: Shanghai
Expertise: Automotive – China
Zeng is responsible for the China Automotive Forecasting. He specializes in the China automotive industry outlook, including sales/production forecasting, manufacturer model program strategies, and government policies. John has more than 13 years' experience in the automotive industry. He holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, York University (Canada) and a B.E. from the College of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Hunan University (China).
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