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).

Mr. Xu is an Executive Director of the Board and the Chief Strategy Marketing Officer of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Management Team.

Mr. Xu has held several senior-level positions at Huawei. In 2013, Mr. Xu was appointed as the Chief Strategy Marketing Officer, a position he has held ever since. In 2011, Mr. Xu became CEO of the Enterprise Business Group. In 2010, he was appointed as President of the Joint Committee of Regions. In 2009, Mr. Xu served as Chief Sales & Service Officer. In 2008, Mr. Xu was appointed as Huawei’s Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer. In 2005, Mr. Xu served as President of Huawei’s European Area, a position dedicated to Huawei’s business development in Europe. In 2003, Mr. Xu worked as President of the International Technical Sales & Marketing Department, responsible for product marketing worldwide.

In 1990, Mr. Xu graduated from Southeast University in China, with a master’s degree in automatic control. In 1991, he joined Huawei’s Research & Development Department.