Rebecca Harding focuses on what globalisation actually looks like once it hits the numbers. An economist specialising in international trade, she examines how goods, services, capital, and data move through real supply chains, and where risk accumulates when those flows are disrupted.

Her work exposes the hidden dependencies that underpin modern economies: who relies on whom, where resilience is assumed rather than built, and why trade shocks travel faster than policy responses. Rather than framing localisation as ideology or retreat, Harding analyses it as risk management, a response to exposure created by hyper-connected systems.

For leaders, her insight brings precision to debates often dominated by politics or sentiment. She shows how trade data reveals power, vulnerability, and leverage, and why understanding economic exposure is now central to strategy, security, and long-term competitiveness.