Sir Henry Hardman, KCB (15 December 1905 – 17 January 2001) was an English civil servant and, briefly, an academic economist.
He taught for the Workers’ Educational Association from 1929 until 1934 when he was appointed an economics tutor at the University of Leeds.
[1] After the outbreak of the Second World War, Hardman was drafted into the civil service in 1940 and served in the Ministry of Food.
He was Deputy Head of the British Food Mission in Washington, DC (1946–48) and was the Minister of the UK's Permanent Delegations in Paris from 1953 to 1955.
After retiring, Hardman was chairman of the Home Grown Cereals' Authority (1968–77) and the Covent Garden Market Authority (1967–75), managing the market's move to Nine Elms, and he served on the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1967–70; as deputy chairman until 1968).