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Board of Trustees2002 Board ElectionOrganization Member CandidateLatif Ladid<latif.ladid@village.uunet.lu> President, IPv6 Forum;
Vice President, Ericsson Telebit A/S 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. Served as Vice President at Canadian Internet specialist Develcon. Latif joined IPv6-pioneer Telebit as Vice President (In June 1999, Ericsson acquired a major share in Telebit, creating Ericsson Telebit A/S). With strong support from the IETF Next Generation NG -IPv6 & NG Transition Working Groups and the IPv6 Deployment group, Latif initiated the foundation of the IPv6 Forum in May 1999. Served, from 1996 to 1998, as chairman of Global-ISDN. Included in 1998 as International Who' s Who Professional. Researcher on multiple European Commission IST Projects ( 6INIT, 6WINIT, ..) on Internet Infrastructure and Next Generation Technologies. Co-Founder of the Next Generation Networks Initiative (NGNi,) funded by the European Commission to kick-off Jan 1, 2001. Member of 3GPP Project Co-ordination Group. He holds an ESCAE (France), and a Post-Graduate Diploma in business and administration in the UK. Appointed ISOC Trustee - 2001-2002 Statement I believe that the Internet Society, with its new governance model and its rejuvenating features in extending free universal membership to everyone, is a new space to enable me to further strengthen the initiatives that I have undertaken in my first year of board membership and allow me to put in place these and additional new initiatives to help drive the next generation Internet to an accelerated worldwide penetration for the benefit in particular of developing countries. My personal expertise and skills in the arena of IPv6 will enable me to contribute to a greatly expanded visiblity and influence of ISOC. I will:
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