Patricia Hirl Longstaff is a Senior Research Fellow in the Moynihan Institute at Syracuse University, specializing in interdisciplinary and international policy. Her current interests are policy issues for resilience in various systems and for artificial intelligence. She is a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Subcommittee on International Disaster Recovery Communications. Her book, The Communications Toolkit: How To Build or Regulate Any Communications Business, (MIT Press) integrates ideas from her interdisciplinary search for clues for answers to the problems confronting communications businesses and their regulators.

She has earned the following advanced degrees:
Harvard University, Master of Public Policy (1994)
University of Iowa, JD (1976), and MA in Communications (1976).