Place of birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Parentage: son of Walter Hartley and Ivy Hartley (née Stead)

Family: one son: Adam, two daughters: Lucy and Cecilia (née Ellis)

Education: BSc, Economics, University of Hull 1961; PhD, Economics, University of Hull 1970

Career: Keith Hartley is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Defence Economics at the University of York. His research interests include: defence economics, NATO, procurement, contracts, competition, collaboration and offsets, disarmament and conversion, exports, defence industrial base, conflict, and public procurement in the Single European Market. He was an adviser to the Parliamentary Defence Committee and a member of the Editorial Board of Public Administration, Public Procurement Law Review and Review of Policy Issues. Professor Hartley is Secretary-General of the International Defence Economics Association and the University's representative on Yorkshire and Humberside TAVR. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council and of the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is editor of the journal Defence and Peace Economics (see url below).

Publications include: The Political Economy of NATO: Past, Present and into the 21st Century (co-author) 1999, The Economics of Regional Security: NATO, The Mediterranean and Southern Africa (co-editor) 2000, The Economics of Defence (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics) (co-editor) 2001, Public Procurement (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics) (co-editor) 2002, The Economics of Conflict, Vols I–III (Elgar International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series 168) 2003, Handbook of Defence Economics, Vol. 2 (co-editor) 2007; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Room A/B235, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, England; Tel: +44 (0)1904 433753; Fax: +44 (0)1904 433759; Email: kh2@york.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/econ/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10242694.asp/ .