Professor Margaret Harding
Independent Chair of the RAG
Professor Margaret Harding is the Chair of the James Martin Institute’s Research Advisory Group. Margaret Harding is an experienced Board Director and higher education Senior Executive. She is currently Board Chair of NSW Circular; Board Chair of the Australian National Imaging Facility; non-Executive Director at SmartSat CRC; Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University; and an Honorary Fellow at the National Measurement Institute. 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. She was Chair of the Australian Giant Magellan Telescope Committee, a member of the NSW State Government Review of Health and Medical Research Panel and of the Australian Research Council Advisory Council.