Salam Yamout is an independent consultant specializing in digital transformations and their impact on business, governments, and society at large. Before that, she headed the Middle East Regional Bureau of the Internet Society for three years and was the National ICT Strategy Coordinator at the Office of the Prime Minister of Lebanon for six years. Over her career, she worked with industry leaders such as Cisco Systems, and consulted with International organizations such as the European Union and UNDP.

Ms. Yamout serves on the board of various organizations. Currently, she is an Executive Board member of the RIPE NCC (the Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia), the chairman of LEBIX (the Lebanese Internet Exchange Point), and the Vice-President of the LLWB (Lebanese League of Women in Business).

Ms. Yamout holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) in Beirut and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona.