Harry Wels is the Publications Manager of the African Studies Centre Leiden. He is trained as an organisational anthropologist.

His research is primarily focused on South and Southern Africa and is about organisational structures of cooperation in the context of nature conservation and touches on and relates to broader issues in Human-Animal studies.

Harry is the convenor of the ASCL Collaborative Research Group Trans-species perspectives on African Studies, and a Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria.