France Bélanger

Education

Ph.D.  University of South Florida

Specialization

Digital Interactions,
Information Privacy and Security, and
Cybersecurity Governance

Biography

France Bélanger is University Distinguished Professor, R. B. Pamplin Professor, and Tom & Daisy Byrd Senior Faculty Fellow in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. She is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems.

France’s research focuses on digital interactions between individuals, businesses, and governments and the related cybersecurity and privacy issues. Her award-winning work has been published in leading 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. She is 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). She 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 her academic career by funding the France Bélanger Chair in Information Systems.

She has 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. She is on the Distinguished Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Information Management. Her work has been funded for more than US$1.5 million by agencies, institutes, corporations, and research centers, including the National Science Foundation. She was 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). In 2022, she co-launched an outreach program called ‘Voices of Privacy’ to educate society about information privacy issues and solutions.