Julie Carlson is director, government affairs at Qualcomm, where she focuses on policy issues related to IP, standardisation, and innovation. Dr Carlson previously served as associate director for antitrust and innovation policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and as a senior staff economist in the Bureau of Economics at the US Federal Trade Commission. At the FTC, she worked on anticompetitive conduct investigations involving technology companies, contributed to key agency reports including on patent assertion entities, and advised Chairman Joseph Simons, Commissioner William Kovacic, and Bureau Director Marta Wosinska.
Earlier in her career, Dr Carlson was an assistant profesor of economics at Trinity University. She has published and presented extensively on competition and innovation policy. Dr Carlson holds a Phd in economics from Michigan State University.