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Katherine Hardin

Executive Director at IHS Markit
MBA 1996
Katherine Hardin

Katherine Hardin is Executive Director at IHS Markit. She leads IHS Markit's work at the intersection of energy and mobility. She was part of the leadership team for the widely-known Reinventing the Wheel study which forecastadoption of electric vehicles in key global markets.

Kate was the commercial lead for IHS Markit’s Reinventing the Wheel study, a ground-breaking study on electric vehicles conducted jointly by IHS Markit’s energy, automotive, and chemical teams.P

reviously, Kate led IHS Global Institutional Investor Energy Research and IHS CERA’s Russian and Caspian Energy Research.   Kate’s own research focuses on the decarbonization of transportation and its impact on the energy sector.

Prior to joining IHS Markit, Kate was an energy consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising on power sector privatization throughout Russia and the Caspian region, and she has worked extensively in Russia and the CIS since 1990.  Kate is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow with the United States-Japan Foundation. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University, and holds an MA from Yale University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.