Barbara Kehm is a professor of leadership and international strategic development in higher education at the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at Glasgow University. She has worked as a lecturer at Sussex University from 1986 to 1989 and as a post-doc researcher at the University of Kassel from 1990 until 1996. From 1996 onwards she was employed as a senior researcher at the Institute of Higher Education Research of the University of Halle-Wittenberg and was its research coordinator from 2001 onwards. Kehm is a member (and former secretary) of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers and the German Association of Higher Education Research.