Katharine Ku is the Chief Licensing Advisor at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Previously, she was Executive Director of Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) for 27 years, until 2018. Ku was President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) from 1988-90. She received the 2024 Bayh-Dole Coalition Faces of American Innovation award and the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university technology transfer. In 1999, Stanford OTL received the LES Achievement Award.
