Kiritkumar Lathia

Fellow IET - United Kingdom - B.Sc. C. Eng.

Kiritkumar P. Lathia as VP – Product Strategy, Standards and Regulations at Siemens SpA, Italy; and as Telecommunications Advisor of Italian Government, participated in all ETSI’s strategic/policy activities from 1992 to 2009. During 1992 – 1994 he led Italian Government positions concerning the ETSI IPR Policy with special focus on SMEs having access to ETSI Essential IPRs. In 1994 – 1995 he participated in ETSI Strategic Committees resulting in the current ETSI organisational structure replacing the ETSI Technical Assembly with the ETSI Board and OCG.

In 1996 his “Programme Advisory Committee” provided ETSI with a technical vision for IP based convergence of fixed/mobile/internet core networks with publication of “GMM – Global Multimedia Mobility”. During 1998 Mr. Lathia was an active member of the ETSI delegation in the creation of 3GPP in December 1998 and ensured that ITU-T adopted 3GPP specifications; thus making 3GPP the de-facto global standards body for mobile communications.

From 1997 to 2008 Mr. Lathia was a member of the ETSI Board and Finance Committee where he led enhancements to the ETSI Rules of Procedures to reduce membership fees for SMEs and Academia categories and guaranteeing that the ETSI Board must have an SME member. He made numerous forward looking presentations on behalf of ETSI at international conferences and workshops. At the European level, Mr. Lathia represented ETSI as Chairman of the ICT Standards Board and assisted the European Commission to formulate its official positions for RFID, Privacy and Data Protection Principles.