Ann Harding (economist)
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18 May 1958
Ann Harding | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ann Margaret Harding 18 May 1958 |
| Died | 30 January 2023 (aged 64) |
| Occupations | Economist, academic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Sydney |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Thesis | Lifetime income distribution and redistribution in Australia: Applications of a dynamic cohort microsimulation model (1991) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economist |
| Sub-discipline | Microsimulation modelling |
| Institutions | National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra |
Ann Margaret Harding AO FASSA (18 May 1958 – 30 January 2023)[1] was an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra.
Harding completed a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney.[2] She was a contributor to Business Review magazine in 1980[3] and then joined the Department of the Parliamentary Library in Canberra as a legislative research specialist in January 1981.[4] In 1982 she was employed as a policy analyst by the Department of Social Security.[5] She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1991 with a PhD. Her thesis was titled Lifetime income distribution and redistribution in Australia: Applications of a dynamic cohort microsimulation model.[6]
Harding returned to Australia to the University of Canberra where she was appointed Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy on 12 October 1992,[7] at 34 becoming one of the youngest women professors in Australia.[8] In 1993 she founded and was inaugural Director of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, remaining in that position until 2009,[9] when she moved into a research role.[10] She was made an Emeritus Professor of the University of Canberra in 2014.[2]
Harding's research focused on microsimulation modelling and she was a regular contributor to public policy.[2]
Harding died on 30 January 2023, at the age of 64.[11]
