Ambassador Harris joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark in 2001 after having worked for the Danish Institute for Human Rights from 2000-01 mainly in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has broad headquarter experience, including as Head of Section in the Department for Southern Africa, Department for Russia and the Balkan Countries as well as in the Department for Security Policy.

Ambassador Harris has spent half of his career at Danish missions abroad; 2004-07 as Deputy Head of Mission in Lithuania and 2009-13 as Deputy Head of Mission in Turkey.

In 2013 he was appointed Deputy Director for the Department for the Middle East and North Africa in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen where he served – with a short break as Chargé d’affaires at the Danish Embassy in Cairo for 6 months in 2016 - until he was appointed Ambassador to Morocco and Mauritania in August 2018. In August 2021 he returned to Copenhagen and took up the position of Director for Consular Affairs and Crisis Management which he held until November 2024. December 2024 he was appointed Ambassador to Canada.

Ambassador Harris obtained a Master in Contemporary History and Political Science from the University of Copenhagen in 2000. He took selected modules of the Master in Public Governance programme at the Copenhagen Business School and Copenhagen University in 2014-15 and in 2022-23 he concluded the programme Leadership in Public Governance. He speaks English, German, French and Russian (basic level).

Ambassador Harris was born in June 1972, he is married and has three adult children.