Jonathan Sutherland Harding (born 1958) is a freshwater ecologist from New Zealand.
He completed a doctorate at the University of Canterbury in 1994, with a thesis on New Zealand's lotic ecoregions.
Harding completed a DSc in 2018 at the University of Canterbury.
He served as Dean of Postgraduate Research at Canterbury and was President of the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society.
Harding is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Ako Aotearoa Academy and an Honorary member of the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society.