Trainer Profile Salam Yamout
 
 

 

Salam Yamout

Facilitator – iExec Enterprise Essentials

 

Salam Yamout is the National ICT Strategy Coordinator at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers as part of a UNDP program. From 2005 - 2010 Salam was Program Manager for Corporate Social Responsibility at Cisco. She has 20 years experience in the development and management of ICT systems for both the private and public sectors, the formulation of ICT Strategies and ICT for Development (ICT4D) programs. She has consulted with the EU, UN, ESCWA, the Ministry of Administrative Reform, and the Ministry of Economy.

 
Salam holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Valparaiso University in Indiana, a Master degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona in Tuscon, and an MBA from the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires in Beirut. She is also a certified PMP.
 
Salam is the founder and past president of Women in IT and Secretary General of the MIT Enterprise Forum for the Pan Arab Region. She also founded the Lebanese Broadband Stakeholders Group and the Lebanon Chapter of the Internet Society. Finally, she is a member of the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections, the Lebanese Transparency Association, and the Order of Engineers of Beirut.