International Board
The International Board of the APLO establishes and amends the constitutions of the APLO, accredits delegations, and coordinates the competition internationally. It is re-elected annually during the grand annual meeting attended by all delegations.
Minkyu Kim
General Chair
Co-Founder of APLO
Co-chair of
KLO & Team Leader (2016–2018)
Member of
IOL Board &
Problem Committee
IOL Contestant (
2011)
Simona Klemenčič
Public Relations Chair
Member of
IOL Board
Organizer of the
Linguistics Olympiad of Slovenia
Team Leader of Slovenia
Comparative Linguist
Suhaimi Ramly
Board Member
Co-Founder of APLO
Founder & Vice Chair of
MyCLO
Team Leader of Malaysia (2018-2019)
International Jury
The International Jury of the APLO is responsible for creating the problem set in all official languages, collecting and validating results reported by the Local Jury, and awarding contestants according to the APLO’s award guidelines. For correspondence, please send an email at [email protected].
Minkyu Kim
Member since 2019
See above for details
Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
Member since 2019
Organizing Chair of JOL
Team Leader of Japan
IOL Contestant (
2016)
Tamila Krashtan
Member since 2019
Co-chair of
Ukrainian LO
Team Leader of Ukraine (since 2016)
Co-founder of
Onling
Member of
OLRM Jury
Shinjini Ghosh
Member since 2020
Member of
IOL Problem Committee
Member of
PLO Organizing Committee
IOL Contestant (
2016,
2017,
2018)
Vlad A. Neacșu
Chair (2022–23, 25), Member since 2021
See above for details
Kazune Sato
Member since 2022
Director & Problem Committee Chair of
JOL
Member of
UKLO Problem Committee
Member of
IOL Problem Committee
IOL Contestant (
2019)
Hoju Cha
Chair (2024), Member since 2022
Member of
KLO Problem Committee
Team Leader of Korea (2017–2018, 2024)
APLO International Jury Chair 2024
Tung-Le Pan
Member since 2023
Member of
IOL Problem Committee
Co-founder of
HKLO
Member of
TOL Organizing Committee
IOL Contestant (
2017,
2018)
Alexander Piperski
Member since 2024
Member of
IOL Problem Committee
Member of Traditional Linguistics Olympiad Problem Committee
IOL Contestant (
2004,
2005)
Past Members
Past members
International Board
- Monojit Choudhury (co-founder)
- Shu-Kai Hsieh (co-founder)
- Rujul Gandhi
International Jury
- Jeong Yeon Choi
- Tae Hun Lee
- Yung-Jui Yao
- Maria Losada
- George Enrique Dueñas
- Yu-Hsuan Lee
- Khairul Anwar
- Balaram Prasain
- Bal Krishna Bal
- Shen-Chang Huang
- Aalok Sathe
- Nicolas Wang
- Rujul Gandhi (Chair, 2020–21)
- Michał Boroń
- Yuyang Liu
- Gustavo Baracat