IHS Automotive Spring Conference: Scenarios for an Ever-Changing World

Tim Armstrong

Senior Director, Forecasting, IHS Automotive

Armstrong is Senior Director at IHS Automotive. He is responsible for global automotive forecasting capabilities covering; light vehicle sales and production,  powertrain , components, and heavy trucks. In addition he oversees the near real-time news and analysis provided  by the World Markets automotive team. He has nearly twenty years experience in forecasting, specializing in analysis of emerging markets. Since joining DRI  in 1996 he has headed automotive  forecasting research on Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Middle East and Africa. From 1989 to 1996  he was a senior commodities analyst for Commodities Research Unit in London.

Educated in Australia, Tim has a Master of Economics from the University of Western Australia and Bachelor's degrees in economics and finance from Murdoch University and Curtin University. Languages include English and French.

Colin Couchman

Senior Manager, Global Sales Forecasting, IHS Automotive

Couchman is Director of European Light-Vehicle Forecast Research. He 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.

Tom De Vleesschauwer

Senior Manager, Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, IHS Automotive

De Vleesschauwer is Associate Director and Senior Consultant in the Automotive Consulting practice. He 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.

Florian Eichinger

Senior Analyst, EMEA Powertrain Forecasts, IHS Automotive

Nigel Griffiths

Chief Automotive Economist, IHS Automotive

Nigel Griffiths has more than 20 years experience in analyzing and forecasting trends and has been with the company since 1992 during which time he pioneered analysis of global platform strategies and predicted the extreme fragmentation now being seen in Europe's auto market. Griffiths' experience includes complex market segmentation studies, impact assessment of Emissions and CO2 legislation, competitive positioning of OEM's, deep-sea car transportation flows, production strategies, platform consolidation, OEM strategies, end-of-life exposure forecasting and alternative market simulation models.

He has an MBA from Cardiff Business School, where he specialized in the economics of the motor industry.

Timo Klein

Senior Economist, Europe and CIS Economies, IHS

Timo Klein is a Senior Economist in the Country Analysis and Forecasting Group of IHS Global Insight. He is responsible for providing economic and risk analyses for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, as well as modeling and forecasting macroeconomic conditions for these countries. Located in the IHS Global Insight Frankfurt office, he joined the company in 2004.

Prior to joining IHS Global Insight, Klein worked as a managing analyst at MMS International, heading the team responsible for Eurozone macroeconomic analysis. Prior to 1999, he was the company’s German economist and Bundesbank watcher, analyzing interactions between German economic and interest rate developments. Besides appearing regularly on Reuters, Bloomberg, and CNBC, and giving numerous presentations on central bank policy and economic issues, he has published a number of research papers, notably on topics related to the European Monetary Union and the role of the ECB.

Klein holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Eastern Illinois University and a German diploma degree in Economics following studies in Frankfurt and Munich.

Huaibin Lin

Light Vehicle Sales–China, IHS Automotive

Matthias Muehloeder

Analyst, EMEA Powertrain Forecasts, IHS Automotive

Christoph Stuermer

Research Director, OEM Strategy, IHS Automotive

Stuermer is Research Director of vehicle manufacturer (OEM) strategy within IHS Automotive. He is responsible for the analysis and assessment of global vehicle manufacturers and specializes in the European premium brands. Before that, he was responsible for the analysis and forecast of the German-speaking automotive markets in Europe, as well as for the management of the automotive service products of Global Insight. Before joining IHS, he spent six years at Daimler in various management positions, most recently in Strategic Planning and Product Portfolio Management at Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars.