Alexia Ash

Associate Director, Country Risk Consulting, IHS Markit

Alexia Ash is responsible for IHS Markit Country Risk projects and quantitative inputs, where translation across risk metrics and benchmarks are required.

Ms. Ash was on the development team for Every Point on the Planet (EPOP), IHS Markit’s flagship country risk mapping tool. She is experienced at using methods including risk indexing, stochastic processes, Bayesian modelling, and regression analysis. Recently she has worked on projects for private sector clients to provide probabilistic modelling of terrorist attacks by specific location and time frame and to design methodology to identify percentage probabilities for scenarios affecting food and water security in the Middle East. Ms. Ash holds a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in political science and government from the University of Florida in the United States, and Master of Science in global political economy from the London School of Economics (LSE), United Kingdom.