Paula Wallace is an interior designer, author, wife, mother of four, and president and co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design. The university was named among the "World's Best Design Schools" by Business Week, "America's 25 Hottest Colleges" by Kaplan/Newsweek and was the only art university named among "America's Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs" by Forbes Small Business. SCAD is a private, nonprofit, accredited university, and since its founding in 1978 has been a leader in the adaptive reuse of historic properties. This month, Fashion Group International awarded Wallace and SCAD the FGI Sustainability Award for the university's leadership in sustainability and the revitalization of urban environments.

Wallace is the recipient of the inaugural Elle Décor Vision Award, was named an "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young, and has been appointed Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the Conseiller Culturel and Consul Général of the French Embassy in the United States. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the United Kingdom and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Wallace has authored children's and interior design books, and she has recently written as a guest blogger for Fast Company. In 2006, she released A House in the South: Old-Fashioned Graciousness for New-Fashioned Times, co-authored with Frances Schultz. Her next book, to be released in March 2010, is Perfect Porches: Designing Welcoming Spaces for Outdoor Living (Random House). Wallace earned a B.A. degree from Furman University and M.Ed. and Ed.S. degrees from Georgia State University, and she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Gonzaga University.

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