Brett Smitheram

Brett Smitheram (born 8 March 1979) is a British executive search recruitment consultant working for Mercuri Urval, and Scrabble Grand Master, currently living in Croydon, London. Originally from Camborne, Cornwall, Smitheram is the reigning World Scrabble Champion.^[1]

Smitheram won the UK National Scrabble Championship in 2000, the ABSP Masters invitational event in 2005 and the British Matchplay Scrabble Championship in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2010.^[2] Smitheram has three times won the award for UK highest rated player and is presently ranked number 3 in the world. In 2016 he defeated Mark Nyman at the MSI World Scrabble Championship 2016 3 games to 0 to become the World Scrabble Champion for the first time. Following his Championship win, Smitheram has been highly active in both local and international media championing the Make Mind A Sport campaign to get Scrabble, alongside the likes of Chess, recognised as a sport.

In 1997, Smitheram won six episodes of the game show Countdown, qualifying him for the finals stage of Series 37.^[3] In 2017 Smitheram appeared on the Micky Flanagan TV show Thinking Aloud.

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