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Kirti Gupta

Kirti Gupta
Kirti Gupta serves as vice president and chief economist at Qualcomm Inc., providing economic analysis and thought leadership on global technology, intellectual property (IP), and antitrust economic policy issues in collaboration with business stakeholders and a global network of experts, economists, lawyers and policymakers. Previously, she spent over a decade as a wireless engineering and R&D expert with experience in various standards bodies focused on the 3G and 4G technologies and is a co‐inventor of over 40 patents in the field of wireless communications and has published in various policy, law and economics journals. Gupta is a co-founder and executive director of the IPLeadershIP platform, which convenes timely dialogues on IP and antitrust policy issues on a regular basis. Gupta holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in economics from the UC San Diego.