Mohd Talib Latif is a professor of atmospheric chemistry and air pollution at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and a fellow of the Malaysian Academy of Science (FASc). He completed his BSc in Chemistry and MSc in Environmental Chemistry at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and his PhD at the School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Currently, he serves as the Chairman of the Department of Earth Sciences at UKM and as the President of the Malaysian Association for Aerosol and Air Quality Research (MAAQR). His primary research focuses on the composition of atmospheric aerosols from various sources, including the sea surface microlayer (SML). He also works on gas-phase composition, primarily focusing on surface ozone and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere. Mohd Talib Latif is actively involved in the Asian research community through the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry-Monsoon Asia (IGAC-MANGO) project. He is currently a member of the Task Force Bureau (TFB) on the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).