Dr. Clough joined IHS Markit in 2019 as a consultant in the Chemical Consulting group. He is a key point of contact for projects relating to linear alpha olefins and related downstream industries, for example, synthetic lubricants and surfactants. He was a co-author of a major strategic report on the linear alpha olefin industry, published in November 2020. Prior to joining IHS Markit, Dr. Clough worked as a senior analytical chemist at Syngenta, centered around the structural elucidation of surfactant and polymer materials. He undertook two years of postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Germany. He holds a doctoral degree in Chemistry from Imperial College London and a Master of Chemistry degree from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. Dr. Clough has co-authored over 20 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.