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Rebecca Harding
Rebecca Harding is the Founder and CEO of Delta Economics. She is an independent economist with an extensive background in modelling economic growth, trade, productivity, innovation and enterprise. Most recently her work has focused on the drivers of long-term growth globally and its relationship with financial systems.

She has been an adviser to several governments, written almost 200 articles on economic issues, and held senior posts in leading academic, think-tank and corporate organisations. These include her role as a Senior Fellow at London Business School, Head of UK Corporate Research at Deloitte, Chief Economist at the Work Foundation and Executive Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor world-wide (based at London Business School and Babson College Boston). She has also held visiting professorial roles at Birkbeck College and the Max Planck Institute for Growth Research and was on the Birmingham Business School Advisory Board from its inception in 2004 until November 2011. She holds a BA in Economics and German and an MSc and PhD in the economics of Science and Innovation.

She has advised the European Union and regional governments or agencies in the UK and Germany on innovation and enterprise policy and was a Specialist Adviser to the UK’s Treasury Select Committee between 2004 and 2006 on regional productivity. She was an adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship between 2005 and 2009. Rebecca is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and a member of the Society of Business Economists. She is also a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants and a Board Member/Trustee of the German British Forum. She has most recently been elected as Council Member of the European Movement.

She is also a regular commentator in the broadcast and print media speaking on economic trends, trade, finance and growth with major news agencies.

Research
Her specialisms include public policy and economic research, innovation management, venture capital, scientific entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, corporate responsibility, work organisation and productivity modelling. She has advised the EU, Inter-trade Ireland, the UK and Danish governments and German regional governments on social enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurship and venture capital policy. She sat on the academic panel advising the UK’s government’s innovation review. Her work on social entrepreneurship in the UK has helped to set international standards for measuring the scale of this type of entrepreneurial activity internationally and the recent Challenges and Opportunities for Growth Survey (COGS) of 1800 founders of growth-oriented businesses was the first attempt to measure the productivity and value that social and mainstream entrepreneurial businesses create, even in an economic downturn.

She is the author of 9 books and over 150 academic and policy articles and reports. During her time at Deloitte she developed the Deloitte Competitiveness Index, a means of measuring economic growth potential through innovation and entrepreneurship.

Her non-academic skills include market research, research design, website design and implementation, events organisation and event design and casting, media and public relations, public speaking and fundraising.

Personal Life
Rebecca Harding lives on the South Coast of England. She is married and has two children. She enjoys walking on the South Downs and high-level walking in the Alps. Her hobbies include gardening, cooking, reading and playing the piano.