Academic and professional qualifications:
M.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature, University of Aberdeen
PhD in Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen
A.L.A. (Associate of the Library Association).

Recent professional experience:
1997-distance education information consultant (working principally with the European Training Foundation, Hobsons Publishing, the International research Foundation for Open Learning, Unesco, and the World Bank)

1983-1997 founding Director of the International Centre for Distance Learning at the UK Open University. The Centre established an online/CD-ROM distance education database and was involved in many international projects.

Recent publications:

• 1999 - K Harry (ed.) Higher education through open and distance learning, London: Routledge

• 1998 - K Harry and N. Ismail, Guidelines for the establishment of ODL reference libraries at the regional Phare Distance Education Study Centres, Budapest:

Programme Co-ordination Unit, Phare Multi-country Programme on Distance Education

• 1993- K Harry, M John and D Keegan (eds) Distance education: international perspectives, London: Routledge.

Other recent publications include articles and conference papers, and Block 3, researching the literature on open and distance education, in the Open University's M.A. in Open and Distance Education.