Kirti Gupta is a director of Economic Strategy at Qualcomm, Inc. where she serves as an in-house economist, specializing on Intellectual Property (IP) and competition policy and strategy. She has also worked on developing economic models for determining Qualcomm’s optimal IP strategy world-wide and on designing algorithms for IP portfolio valuation. Dr. Gupta holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in economics from UC San Diego.
David Michael is a senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a research fellow at the 21st Century China Program. He has been working and traveling to Asia for more than two decades and opened BCG's Shanghai office in 1992. He holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.