Rebecca Harding | Author | Trade Treasury Payments

Dr. Rebecca Harding is CEO of the Centre for Economic Security and an independent trade economist, author, public speaker. She is a specialist in digital and sustainable trade and supply chain finance, geoeconomics and geopolitics. Her affiliations include roles as Chief Economic Adviser to the Defence Security and Resilience Bank, an Associate at Earendel Associates, a Senior Fellow at the British Foreign Policy Group and an Associate Partner in the T3i Partner network. She is a member of the Alphen Group.

Her strategic advisory business, Rebeccanomics, provides services in international trade including work on sustainable trade finance for the ITFA and the Sustainable Trade Forum. In 2022 she was awarded the “Net Zero Entrepreneur of the Year” at the annual Scale Up Group’s Enterprise Awards.

She has built three data-based technology businesses. She has held senior positions as Head of Corporate Research at Deloitte, Senior Fellow at London Business School, and Chief Economist roles at the Work Foundation and at UK Finance. She acted as Specialist Adviser to the Treasury Select Committee and advised the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship. Between 2004 and 2018 she was a Director and Trustee of the German-British Forum.