There are far worse writers (rules and fluff butchers) at GW to be worried about than Mr. Kelly.
A certain fluff butcher, let's say his name is Matt Ward, who has been credited with a significant volume of the 'codex creep' we've seen in the last two editions is a far greater concern than how a sculptor happened to work his way up the chain to game designer. Whoever brought him into the fold and then promoted him to write anything more than a table of contents needs to be thoroughly examined.
Like Pretre said though, degrees don't necessarily correlate to competence or capability.
