France Belanger

I am University Distinguished Professor, R. B. Pamplin Professor, and Tom & Daisy Byrd Senior Faculty Fellow in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. In 2022, I was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. My research focuses on digital interactions between individuals, businesses, and governments and the related cybersecurity and privacy issues. My work has been published in leading academic journals, including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal for Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and many others. I am ranked in several most cited author lists, including among others, the top 1% most influential authors across all disciplines and times (Stanford Study) and top 100 most cited IS researchers based on H-index (University of Arizona). I received several international research awards over the years, most recently the 2013 INFORMS Design Science Award for Outstanding Research Stream and 2020 Lifetime Academic Achievement Award from the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management. In 2022, Woxsen University (India) honored my academic career by funding the France Bélanger Chair in Information Systems. I have also been named Fulbright Distinguished Chair in 2006 (ISEG, Portugal), Erskine Fellow in 2009 (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), KoMePol-IT Fellow in 2017 (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany), and Visiting Professorial Fellow 2020-2022 (University of New South Wales, Australia). I serve or have served as Senior or Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, as well as Associate Editor and Guest Editor for many other journals. I am also on the Distinguished Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Information Management. My research has been funded for more than US$1.5 million by agencies, institutes, corporations, and research centers, including the National Science Foundation. In 2022, I co-launched an outreach program called ‘Voices of Privacy’ to educate society about information privacy issues and solutions.