He has also served, from 1996 to 1998, as chairman of Global-ISDN.

Selected in 1998 as International Who's Who Professional. Member of 3GPP PCG Board (www.3gpp.org). Researcher on multiple European Commission IST Projects (6INIT, www.6init.org; 6WINIT, www.6winit.org) Next Generation Technologies. Project Co-ordinator of the Next Generation Networks Initiative (NGNi, www.ngni.org) funded by the European Commission that kicked-off Jan 1, 2001.

Latif is the Chairman of the newly created European Commission IPv6 Task Force initiative (www.ipv6tf.org).

Latif was elected in June 5, 2001 as Internet Society Trustee (www.isoc.org).

Latif Ladid has worked in various managerial and marketing positions at Nixdorf Computers in Germany, and Hewlett-Packard in the Middle East, as International Sales Manager at ComputerLand Europe in Luxembourg, and as Managing Director of ComputerLand Switzerland.

From 1992 to 1998, he was with the Canadian Internet and internet-working specialist, DEVELCON, where he served as Vice President of Sales and Business Development.

In 1998, Latif joined IPv6-pioneer Telebit Communications A/S as Vice President, Sales EMEA. In June 1999, Ericsson acquired a major share in Telebit, creating Ericsson Telebit A/S.