Ann Margaret Harding AO FASSA (18 May 1958 – 30 January 2023)[1] was an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra.
[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.
[5] She graduated with a PhD titled Lifetime income distribution and redistribution in Australia: Applications of a dynamic cohort microsimulation model from the London School of Economics in 1991.
[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.
[2] Harding's research focused on microsimulation modelling and she was a regular contributor to public policy.