Dr Rebecca Harding is CEO of the Centre for Economic Security and an independent trade economist, author and public speaker. Her strategic advisory business, Rebeccanomics, provides services in international trade including work on sustainable trade finance for the ITFA and the Sustainable Trade Forum. Her affiliations include roles as chief economic adviser to the Defence Security and Resilience Bank, an associate at Earendel Associates, and an associate partner in the T3i Partner network. She is a member of the Alphen Group. She has held senior positions as a senior fellow at the British Foreign Policy Group, as head of corporate research at Deloitte, as a senior fellow at London Business School, and as chief economist at the Work Foundation and at UK Finance. She acted as a specialist adviser to the Treasury Select Committee and has advised the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship.