Official List of Lecturers 2021

The FIDE Trainers Commission (TRG) has begun the process to appoint our official lecturers for 2021 and we hope to complete the process by the end of February 2021.

TRG Commission Members and the most active lecturers were first invited to apply (pre-approved) and they are:

1	Mikhail Kobalia	FST, GM	RUS
2	Alexander Motylev	FST, GM	PHI
3	Yu Shaoteng	FST, GM	IND
4	Melikset Khachiyan	FST, GM	USA
5	Sami Khader	FST, IM	JOR
6	Alonso Zapata	FST, GM	COL
7	Ramesh RB	FST, GM	IND
8	Antoaneta Stefanova	FST, GM	BUL
9	Thomas Luther	FST, GM	GER
10	Artur Yusupov	FST, GM	GER
11	Ivan Sokolov	FST, GM	CRO
12	Dejan Bojkov	FST, GM	BUL
13	Sergey Janovsky	FST, GM	RUS
14	John Donaldson	FST, IM	USA

All remaining lecturers in 2020 has now been invited and we will also consider any nominations made by TRG Council members and FIDE Management Board members.

If accepted, with uninimous agreement of the TRG Council, they will however be required to attend an orientation program to familarise themselves with our teaching curriculum and evaluation system.

We have also invited panelists, experts in subject areas relevant to chess training, and they will also be key resources for our Trainer Professional Education & Development Workshops. and so far, two have accepted:

1	Nikolaos Ntirlis	FT	GRE
2	Alexey Root	WIM	USA

The TRG Council of course still reserves the right, on the recommendation of it’s Chairman, to appointed lecturers as needed on a case to case basis to fulfil our work in specific regions and languages.