[8] In 1985 he arrived in Thailand for a faculty lecturer position in Religious Studies in the Department of Humanities Social Science division for the Mahidol University International College.
[9] Smith led a unit of five faculty and four degree majors for a Social Science conference in 2003 to promote dialogue and cooperation between Malaysia and Thailand.
[9] In 1993 Smith was awarded Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand, Third Class,[9] and in 2006 received a certificate of merit, citing his 20-year contribution to MUIC, by Dean Chariya Brockelman.
[20] In 1968, after the Palermo Conference[20] held to commemorate the exile of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the religion, to Acre,[21] Smith, along with Denis MacEoin, Moojan Momen, and Tahir Ronald Taherzadeh (a son of Adib Taherzadeh), served as one of the youth guides at the mass pilgrimage to the Baháʼí World Centre.
[20] Smith then spent a year in Africa and visited some Malawi Bahá'í communities and then went through Botswana.