There's an offical Google Certified AdWords professional program. Now someone asked me who is looking for someone to help with AdWords and teach sessions on the subject in their city. Is there any official directory (i.e. by Google) to find such AdWords professionals?

This is not official but it might help:

http://www.whoisagap.com/

<< WhoisaGAP helps you find out who is qualified as Google doesn't publish the info anywhere, yet lots of people claim to be GAPs. Use the verification links to check authenticity. So far we have found 1176 of the studious buggers. >>

:-)

Also, this search will return all the professional status pages (which all professionals should have, although they may not be listed) but since they're not indexed it's not that useful...

[site:adwords.google.com/select/ProfessionalStatus]

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:adwords.google.com/select/ProfessionalStatus&filter=0

Hey is not Cocoman (member of this forum) an Ad' words pro – maybe he can conjuour up a site for this!!

THX folks, starting off on whoisagap I eventually stumbled across http://www.google.de/adwords/learningcenter/

that's the adwords learning center. I guess it provides everything I want to know about AdWords so I guess I give it atry and explore & enjoy myself

thanks again for helping