Patrick Lozada is the Director of Global Policy at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). TIA is a U.S.-based industry association which advocates for companies that enable high-speed communications networks and develops standards for the ICT sector.

Prior to this role, he was a Director in the China Practice of Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Lozada managed the U.S.-China Business Council’s work on automotive policy from the Council’s Shanghai office. He worked as a consultant in Beijing and Shanghai, and in communications at a lobbying organization in Washington, D.C. He first went to China in 1997 and spent seven years living, studying, and working in the country.

Lozada holds a B.A. from Haverford College, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a certificate in Chinese studies from the Hopkins Nanjing Center at Nanjing University. He serves as a member of the Haverford College Corporation, the U.S.-China Futures Project, and the American National Standards Institute’s International Policy Advisory Group.

Last Updated: March 11, 2022

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