Jake Ansell

Professor Jake Ansell is a faculty member at the University of Edinburgh Business School, specializing in Risk Management. He holds a PhD in Reliability from Keele University, an MSc in Statistics from Newcastle University, and a BSc from the University of Leicester.

• Director, Credit Research Centre
• Co-founder, Edinburgh Strategic Resilience Initiative
• Member, Royal Statistical Society

His research spans financial risk modeling, statistical methods in credit scoring, tourism analytics, and strategic asset management. Key themes include:

• Economic statistics and indices
• Financial wellbeing frameworks
• Quantitative tourism flow management
• Reliability engineering

Recent publications focus on credit scoring interpretability (2023), asset maintenance optimization (2022), and social media impacts on tourism (2024). Current projects include ESRC-funded IoT tourism management in rural destinations.

Active collaborations include:

• Principal Investigator for ESRC IAA Transient Visitor Levy project (2025)
• Co-investigator for financial capability research (2022-2024)