Professor Longstaff came to the study of resilience as part of her ongoing search for ways to manage and regulate systems with high uncertainty. She has published several papers in this area, including a multidisciplinary analysis of the concept of resilience and its implications for public policy and planning for ‘surprises’ such as terrorism and natural disasters. She received funding from the National Science Foundation to lead a cross-disciplinary investigation of resilience and has presented her ideas at conferences around the world. She is currently a James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School. Back home, she is the David Levidow Professor of Communication Law and Policy and a faculty member of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Harvard University Program for Information Policy Research (PIRP). She is a member of the US State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.

(Current as of Jan 2011.)