GM Smbat Lputian has been appointed as the Chairman of the FIDE Chess in Education Commission

Vice-President of the Armenian Chess Federation, Founder-President of Chess Academy of Armenia and Founder-president of Chess Scientific Research Institute GM Smbat Lputian has been appointed as the Chairman of the FIDE Chess in Education Commission. 
This decision was made at the FIDE Presidential Board meeting which took place in London on November 8-10, 2018. 
This certainly happened due to the fact that Armenia has a successful Chess in School program and desires to spread it to other countries, too.