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Chris learnt to play bridge as a teenager and enjoyed playing very badly for some years before she was obliged to improve in order to be able to communicate sensibly with her first husband, the original Chris Duckworth, and her second husband, Brian Callaghan.
After a career in computing and training with BT and a short period of self-employed bridge teaching she joined the EBU for a 10-year stint as Education Services Manager, where she particularly enjoyed working on the development of young players.

Alan is a mostly-retired economist who has lived in Oxfordshire for the past 20+ years after being Surrey-based for 30+ years before that. He learnt to play bridge with some friends at school, but the game took second place to chess until after university.

I was taught Bridge by my Dad when I was 12 years old and have been playing ever since. I was fortunate to get the opportunity to enter junior trials when I was 16 and managed to be selected for the British Junior Squad and the English Under 20s team. In 1995 it was a privilege to be asked to partner Sandra Landy in the Beijing World Championships. At the time I was the youngest player to represent their country at non-junior level for any Nation.

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I started playing bridge with my family when I was 13 and immediately loved the game. Much of my time at university was spent playing bridge (with a sideline of a computer science degree) and while there I played in my first congresses. After university I got a job in London and became a regular at the Young Chelsea. Gordon Rainsford who at the time was the manager of the Young Chelsea inspired me to get in to directing and I took the club course at Brighton in 2008 and then the county course in 2010.

I started playing bridge whilst studying mathematics at university; it was there that I also started directing. After university, I did a couple of years in professional theatre before settling down to twenty years' work at the National Physical Laboratory as a computer scientist. I attended the some of the first County TD Courses in the early 1990s and worked my way up the ranks to EBU National TD. I attended an EBL Tournament Directors Course in 2004 and came first; I directed at the EBL Teams Championship that year, and then attained the rank of EBL Tournament Director.

Frances Hinden is the youngest member of the Laws & Ethics Committee.

She started playing bridge seriously at Cambridge University where she won the Portland Bowl three times, the Junior Camrose once and gained a silver medal in the first European Universities Championship. Far more importantly she also met Jeffrey Allerton, who first convinced her to play a strong NT, then to play attitude leads, and finally – a few years later – to marry him.

David was born in 1956 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He was educated Dulwich College and Caius, Cambridge, and is an IT consultant. He has played for England in 7 Camrose matches, 1 European Championships and 1 World Olympiad.

Tim is former chairman of the EBU Laws & Ethics committee (2013-17, and served on the committee 2010-present). He has won the majority of the major domestic competitions, and has represented Wales for many years.

Gold Cup winner: 2000 and 2001

Crockfords winner: 2001

Spring Foursomes winner: 2008

Brighton Pairs, Harold Poster Cup Winner: 2010

Autumn Congress Two Stars Pairs Winner: 2003

National Teams Congress winner: 1998 and 1999

David is one of the leading bridge professionals in the UK, with numerous successes in domestic and international tournaments. Over the last 30 years, he has represented England and Britain at both Junior and Open levels of competition. 

David began playing Bridge as a teenager, and during his Junior career, he represented Great Britain in three European Championships, and several Channel Trophy, Peggy Bayer and Junior Camrose events.