Biography:

Salam Yamout is currently a Program Manager for the Partnership for Lebanon, Cisco Systems. She is the current President of WIT and one of WITs founders.

Professionally, Salams expertise lays in national ICT strategies, ICT4D, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Salam holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, and an MBA from the Ecole Suprieure des Affaires.

Salam is a member of IEEE, the Order of Engineers of Beirut, Lebanese Broadband Stakeholders Group, MIT Enterprise Forum, and other Lebanese NGOs. She is a certified Project Management Professional with PMI.

Statement of purpose:

It pleases me to be running again for election for the board of WIT 2010-2012. As a board member, I would like to focus on two and only two things: fund raising and membership activities. Specialized training, speaking opportunities, and going to conferences are some of the examples of what I perceive as members activities and that I wish to explore and develop in the next 3 years. In fund raising, WIT should seek to secure its operating budget from donations. This will free it to program activities for its members, which is something we have not been able to do in the past because of lack of funding.