Dr. Smith leads the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute’s Policy Analysis Division. This division informs homeland security policy through independent and objective analysis across the various stages of the policy process, including strategic analysis and policy analysis, development, implementation, and evaluation.

Dr. Smith is an experienced policy and program evaluator, management analyst, and business leader. He has 22 years of experience in the federal government, as a federal employee and as a subject matter expert and executive with private-sector federal contractors.  He has focused on methods of measuring and improving agency mission performance, particularly in the areas of border security, immigration, and interagency cooperation and integration.  Most recently, while serving HSSAI as an adjunct distinguished analyst, he was a member of the faculty at Florida Gulf Coast University.  At this university, he served as the program coordinator for the Master of Public Administration program and as a professor of political science in the undergraduate program.

Dr. Smith’s doctorate in public administration with a focus on performance measurement was awarded by George Washington University.  He holds a master’s of business administration with distinction from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree in modern European history and literature from New College, Florida.