Professor Ann Harding
After working on major policy reviews in several Federal government departments, Ann Harding was appointed Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy and the inaugural Director of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra in January 1993. She is an internationally recognised expert in the fields of microsimulation modelling, income distribution, and tax/transfer policy.
NATSEM has since evolved into one of Australia's leading research centres, having constructed models and undertaken research across a wide spectrum of social and economic policy, including tax, social security, health insurance, hospital usage, pharmaceutical benefits, education, child care, effective marginal tax rates, income inequality, poverty, housing, wealth, child support and intergenerational transfers.
In recent years Ann and NATSEM have been involved in pioneering work developing spatial microsimulation models, including the HOUSEMOD model developed for AHURI (which can be used to predict the spatial impact of changes in Commonwealth Rent Assistance). In 1996 Ann was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, becoming one of the youngest ever Fellows. Ann holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from Sydney University.
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