Ashna Rahman

Ashna Rahman heads S&P Global Market Intelligence data science client engagements.

Dr. Ashna heads S&P Global Market Intelligence data science client engagements. She joined the company in May 2016 and is based in London. In her current role, she is leading the business development initiative in analytics and data science (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning). With the help of highly talented and experienced data scientists based in various global locations, Dr. Ashna's mandate is to provide value, efficiency, and to drive competitive edge and growth for our clients through the application of data science. In the past years she helped clients with operational, regulatory, policy driven and strategic insights by bringing together the four crucial components - data, technology, industry expertise and data science.

Dr. Ashna has 16 years of industry experience in data science and analytics. Prior to this role, she worked for S&P Global Commodity Insights. During her role as Head of Analytics and Consulting in S&P Global Commodity Insights, she delivered multimillion dollar projects based on data science.

She has been driving the strategy for the data and analytics business serving a large client pool consisting of major oil and gas companies, trading houses, investment banks, hedge and pension funds.

Dr. Ashna started her career in energy trading in Uniper (previously Eon) in the UK and Germany and subsequently in Gazprom, London, where she traded crude oil and LNG for the spot market and long-term portfolio and hedging instruments. She led the quantitative trading desk in both roles and oversaw the implementation of various machine learning models into physical and options trading.