Margaret Harding

NIF Governing Board Chair

Margaret Harding is an experienced Board Director and higher education Senior Executive. She is currently a member of the ARC Board, non-Executive Director at SmartSat CRC Ltd, Chair of the Research Advisory Committee at James Martin Public Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University.  She holds BSc (Hons), PhD and DSc degrees in chemistry from the University of Sydney. 

Margaret has held Senior Executive roles in higher education, most recently serving as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the Australian National University. She has been a Director on the Boards of ANU Enterprise Pty Ltd, Australian Scientific Instruments Pty Ltd, Neuroscience Research Australia Pty Ltd, Bionic Vision Australia Pty Ltd (Alternate Director) and has been a member of the Governing Boards of the National Computational Infrastructure, the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics and the Australia Indonesia Centre.