Chief Automotive Economist, IHS Markit
Mr. Nigel Griffiths is chief automotive economist for theAutomotive
Group at IHS Markit.
Mr. Griffiths has more than 25 years of direct experience in
analyzing and forecasting demand trends and car sales in the global
automotive industry. He has consulted on forecast projects,
including complex market segmentation studies, impact assessments
of emissions and CO2 legislation, competitive positioning of OEMs,
deep-sea car transportation flows, production strategies, platform
consolidation, OEM strategies, end-of-life exposure forecasting,
and alternative market simulation models. His current role involves
the development of sensitivity and scenario-based forecasting. His
work on deep-dive methodologies for China and its provinces helps
steer the core global and country-level light vehicle forecasts for
Automotive. He has been with the company since 1992, during which
time he has pioneered analysis of global platform strategies,
predicted the extreme fragmentation now occurring in Europe's auto
market and developed a predictive defection model for consumer
behavior in the face of impending CO2 legislation. Earlier in his
career, he worked for an international automotive consulting
company, where he developed new analytical approaches to
accommodate anticipated structural change in car consumer behavior
at both regional and city levels in response to global adaptation
of new urban mobility patterns. Mr. Griffiths holds a first-class
honors degree in Economics, a master's degree in Industrial and
Business Economics, and a Master of Business Administration degree
from Cardiff Business School in Wales, UK, where he specialized in
the economics of the motor industry. Mr. Nigel Griffiths has
received numerous awards for study and analysis, including the
Alexander Duckhams Prize of the Institute of the Motor Industry,
the Adam Smith Medal and the Sir Julian Hodge Prize of the
University of Wales.
