Dan Smith OBE (born 17 September 1951) is a British author, cartographer and peace researcher.

After graduation, he worked for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament before taking up research on UK defence policies in 1976.

[1] In 2001 he held a brief fellowship at the Norwegian Nobel Institute[2] and in 2003 at the Hellenic Foundation for Foreign and European Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens.

[9] He was Chairman of the Board of the London-based NGO Institute for War and Peace Reporting from 1993 until 2006.

[11] Smith is also responsible for over 100 articles in journals and periodicals and chapters in anthologies, as well as a number of reports, of which the two most significant are: Smith authored three crime novels, all published by Macmillan: Fathers’ Law (1986), Serious Crimes (1987) and The Fourth Crow (1989).