Lamis al-Alami

{{short description|Palestinian educator and politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Lamis al-Alami

| image = Lamis Al Alami (cropped).jpg

| caption = Al Alami in 2011

| office = Minister of Education and Higher Education

| term_start = June 2007

| term_end = July 2007

| president = Mahmoud Abbas

| primeminister = Ismail Haniyeh

| successor = Samih Abu Awwad

| term_start2 = May 2009

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| president2 = Mahmoud Abbas

| primeminister2 = Salam Fayyad

| predecessor2 = Nasser al-Din al-Shaer

| successor2 = Muhammad Abu Zeid

| office3 = Commissioner of the Central Elections Commission of Palestine

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| birth_date = 1943

| birth_place = Jerusalem

| alma_mater = American University of Beirut, University of Edinburgh

| occupation = Educator, politician

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| native_name = لميس العلمي

| native_name_lang = ar

}}

Lamis al-Alami ({{langx|ar|لميس العلمي}}; born 1943) is a Palestinian educator and politician. She was Minister of Education and Higher Education in the Palestinian Authority Governments of June–July 2007 and Palestinian Authority Government of May 2009, and a commissioner of the Central Elections Commission of Palestine.

Al-Alami was born in Jerusalem and educated at the Schmidt's Girls College in the city. She then obtained a BA in English from the American University of Beirut in 1964, a Master's in English literature in 1967, and a Master's in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh in 1974.

She taught at UNRWA's women's college in Ramallah from 1975, became its deputy director in 1983 and its manager in 1994, in which year she also became responsible for education in all of UNRWA's 100 schools and three colleges. She retired from this in 2004. She was later the Director General of The Independent Commission for Human Rights.

She is a director of the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN).