Kirti Gupta

Dr. Kirti Gupta is Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology at Cornerstone Research. Before joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. Gupta was a vice president and chief economist at Qualcomm Inc., where she served as an in-house economist, specializing on Intellectual Property (IP) and competition policy and strategy. In this role, she was responsible for managing the substantive direction of the global IP policy and advocacy outreach efforts, and for conducting original research on issues related to IP and competition law and economics. She worked on various international antitrust and litigation cases. Kirti was also responsible for developing economic models for determining Qualcomm’s optimal IP strategy world-wide and on designing algorithms for IP portfolio valuation. Prior to her role as an economist, Kirti spent over a decade as a wireless systems engineering expert, working on research and development of third and fourth generation (3G and 4G) wireless cellular systems and has represented Qualcomm in various global technology standards bodies. She is a co‐inventor of thirty-five patents in the field of wireless communications. Dr. Gupta holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.