Kevin Bell
Head of Higher Education and Research
AWS
Dr. Kevin Bell has led digital-technology initiatives at a number of institutions across the globe. He served as Chief Academic Officer at Southern New Hampshire University before moving on to Northeastern University, where he founded the award-winning Online Experiential Learning team and sat on the Gates Foundation reviewing emergent (Next Gen) Tech platforms. He completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania with research focused on intrinsic motivators for students from under-represented minorities. Relocating to Australia as WSU’s PVC-Digital Futures, in 2021 he joined AWS as their Head of Higher Education and Research for ANZO. At AWS he is focused on how systems organisation allied to emergent technologies can be applied to contemporary challenges in academia.