Dr. Asok Chatterjee, on completion of his academic training in India and Canada, has been with the telecommunications industry for about 30 years. He started his career in Research and Development. Since then he has branched into a multitude of segments of the industry – local and long distance communications, satellite communications, wireless communications including cellular and specialized mobile radio.

Asok Chatterjee was one of the founders of 3GPP in 1998 and is still busy standardizing the evolution of W-CDMA-based third generation mobile wireless systems. He is currently the Vice Chairman of its Project Coordination Group – the highest level operations-policy making body of 3GPP.

Dr. Chatterjee is currently the Vice President of Strategic Standardization for Ericsson Inc.