Keith Smith FRSC FLSW (born 15 January 1947) is an academic and British organic chemist.
He attended the Leek High School, before gaining a scholarship to study Chemistry at Manchester University where he went on to achieve a BSc with First Class Honors in 1968.
Smith received an MSc in 1969 and a PhD in 1971 in the field of boron chemistry working under the supervision of Dr Andrew Pelter.
Smith received a Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship to take up a postdoctoral research position with Professor Albert Eschenmoser at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland.
[1] In 1971, he became a lecturer at University College of Swansea where his old supervisor Professor Andrew Pelter had recently taken up his Chair of Organic Chemistry.