David Andrew Smith (born March 5, 1952) is a former Deputy Director of the

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Information Centre (UNIC) in

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. In 2010 he was named as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A successor was named in 2016. Previously, he worked as an award-winning TV correspondent with

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and Channel 4 News. In January 2008, The

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identified him as one of the most influential Britons in America. Mr. Smith, a national of the United Kingdom, holds a Master of Arts degree in humanities from Lincoln College, Oxford University. He is married and has three sons and one daughter.

Biography

Smith was born in 1952, the son of John and Patricia Smith. He was educated at

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, where he received BA Hons and MA. He was a Reuters correspondent in Spain and Italy between 1975 and 1978 and then, working for

and Channel 4 News, reported from

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and was

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Correspondent,

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Correspondent, Diplomatic Correspondent and

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Correspondent. While working as a TV correspondent, he wrote two books, a biography of Robert Mugabe and a study of Israel's relationship with the Palestinians. He also taught journalism as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Michigan and Maryland, focusing on the role of the foreign correspondent in influencing foreign policy. In 2004, he joined the

Information Centre in

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, and represented UN Secretary-General

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in the Americas from 2004–2014.

Awards

*International Reporting Award, Royal Television Society, London 1983 *Gold Medal, New York Television Festival, 2000

Publications

* Mugabe, a biography, (Sphere Books, London, 1981) * Prisoners of God, the Modern-day conflict of Arab and Israeli (Quartet Books, London 1987)

References

*http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1435100/The-most-influential-Britons-in-America-40-31.html *http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article841551.ece?token=null&offset=24 *https://web.archive.org/web/20081120150426/http://www.unicwash.org/about/dsmith.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20120212222526/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=23310§ioncode=1 *https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/aug/20/channel4.tvnews 1952 births Living people British officials of the United Nations {{UK-journalist-stub