Dan Smith (British author)
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Professor Dan Smith |
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Assumed office 2015 |
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| Director of Peace Research Institute Oslo | |
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In office 1993–2001 |
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| Preceded by | Hilde Henriksen Waage |
| Succeeded by | Stein Tønnesson |
Dan Smith OBE (born 1951) is a British author, cartographer and peace researcher. He is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester. He was Director of Peace Research Institute Oslo from 1993 to 2001. Smith was the Secretary General of the independent peacebuilding organisation International Alert and is currently the Director of the (SIPRI).
After graduating in English Literature from the University of Cambridge in 1973, Smith worked first for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament before taking up research on UK defence policies in 1976. He was a fellow first of the Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research (located at that time in London) and then of the Department of Economics at Birkbeck College in London. During the 1980s Smith worked as a freelance researcher and writer. In 1989 he became co-director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, becoming its sole director in 1991, and then moving to Oslo where he was Director of the international Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) from 1993 to 2001. In 2001 he held a brief fellowship at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and in 2003 at the Hellenic Foundation for Foreign and European Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens.
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