Prof Janice R Bellace
Samuel Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics;
Professor of Management
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Janice R. Bellace is the founding President of Singapore Management University (SMU). She assumed the presidency in July 1999 and stepped down in September 2001. Prof Bellace continues to be involved with SMU through her appointments as a member of the Board of Trustees, Chairperson (Academic Affairs Committee) and Chairperson of the Wharton-SMU Research Centre.

Prof Bellace is the Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, a joint degree program of the College of Arts and Sciences and of the Wharton School  at the University of Pennsylvania .  She is also Samuel Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Professor of Management.  Prof Bellace joined Wharton's faculty in 1977 and has held various academic appointments.  She was Interim Associate Dean for Development from 1999 – 2000, Deputy Dean from 1994 – 1999 and Undergraduate Dean from 1990-1994. From 2004 – 2007 she was the Deputy Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, a role which included oversight of the University's 2400 standing faculty. 

Prof Bellace is a member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Organization. For more than ten years, she was the general editor of the Comparative Labor Law Journal , and upon stepping down from that position in 1997 became a senior editor of the Journal. Active in several professional organizations, she is on the executive board of the International Industrial Relations Association, and of the U.S. branch of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security. Prof Bellace is a former Secretary of the Section on Labor and Employment Law of the American Bar Association. She is presently a member of the Public Review Board of the United Auto Workers.

Prof Bellace is a member of the Board of Trustees of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia , and of the Methodist Hospital Foundation. In Singapore , Prof Bellace served on the Board of Directors of OCBC (Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation) from 2000-2001. She is also on the advisory board of Koc University , Istanbul , Turkey .

Prof Bellace received her bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Pennsylvania . She holds a M.Sc. degree from the London School of Economics, which she attended as a Thouron Scholar.