Anita Barbara Wreford is a New Zealand applied economist, and is a full professor at Lincoln University, specialising in climate change adaptation.

Wreford completed a Master of Applied Science degree in natural resource management at Massey University, supervised by John Holland and Terry Kelly.

[1] She then moved to Lincoln University where she completed a PhD titled The impact of international trade liberalisation on the emissions of agricultural greenhouse gases in 2006.

[2] Wreford did postdoctoral research in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, including at the University of East Anglia's Tyndall Centre and Scotland's Rural College.

[3][4] Returning to New Zealand, Wreford was a senior economist at Scion, before joining the faculty at Lincoln University, rising to full professor in 2022.