Shiva Goel

Shiva Goel is a leading telecom and technology policy lawyer and partner at Wiley Rein LLP. He recently served as the senior adviser for Spectrum Policy at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), where he managed the federal government’s multitrillion-dollar spectrum portfolio and agency-wide space and satellite policy initiatives on behalf of the NTIA administrator. At NTIA, Shiva led the agency’s efforts to advance U.S. national and economic security by expanding commercial access to scarce wireless spectrum, including through its implementation of the National Spectrum Strategy. Under his leadership, NTIA successfully completed studies identifying hundreds of megahertz of spectrum for expanded commercial access and blueprinted and funded additional efforts to expand spectrum access in highly complex and contested mid-band frequencies. Shiva joined NTIA from the Federal Communications Commission, where he served as legal adviser to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks on wireless, space, and international policy matters. He was previously a partner in the telecom, appellate, and litigation practices of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP. He received his law degree, Order of the Coif, from the University of Virginia School of Law and a BA from Cornell University. He is a regular speaker on telecom policy issues and active in various civic societies, including as a barrister in the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court.