Keith Bowen is a researcher and instructor at Stanford University who works at the intersection of technology, Learning Experience Design (LX Design), and education. He has extensive experience developing and studying innovative programs that blend best practices in teaching (e.g., collaborative learning, cross-cultural learning, and problem-based learning) with emerging technologies that are both scalable and sustainable (e.g., online platforms, digital cinema, multiplayer simulation, and virtual reality). He is currently studying the design and impact of educational technology programs that connect students in high-income and low-income countries, with special focus on fragile states and zones of conflict. Working with faculty partners at Stanford, as well as other universities in the US, UK, Australia, Lebanon, and Pakistan, he has designed, developed, and studied a series of Virtual Student Exchange courses in the fields of global health, international education, and international journalism. These programs have resulted in higher student engagement, reduction in stereotypes about the other, improvement in attitudes towards the other, building of relationships across cultures, and development of professional capacity in global environments. To these efforts, Bowen brings over 10 years of experiences training practitioners in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan, Nepal, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as well as teaching students in the U.S. and other Western countries who aspire to work overseas in government, non-profits, education, and the private sector. He has developed educational programs that have been completed by tens of thousands of learners, and he has had several educational documentaries distributed by the Discovery Channel.