Dr. Rebecca Harding is founder and CEO of Coriolis Technologies, a data and analytics provider for the trade finance space. She is an independent speaker and trade and trade finance economist. In 2022 she was awarded the “Net Zero Entrepreneur of the Year” at the annual Scale Up Group’s Enterprise Awards event.

Her experience spans academia, policy and business, including senior positions at Deloitte, London Business School, the Work Foundation, and as Chief Economist of UK Finance (formerly the British Bankers Association). She acted as Specialist Adviser to the Treasury Select Committee and advised the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship. She 

has acted as an trade finance and supply chains expert witness, is a member of the World Trade Board and of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s ESG Committee. 

Between 2004 and 2018 she was a Director and Trustee of the German-British Forum.

She co-authored “The Weaponization of Trade: the Great Unbalancing of Policy and Economics" and “Gaming Trade: Win-Win Strategies for the Digital Era.” She has authored 8 other books on the German economy, global innovation policy and SME financing. Her high media profile includes frequent appearances on BBC Television and Radio, Sky News and theIan King Show, CNBC, and Times Radio as well as citations in the broadsheet media