Sir Steven Murray Smith, FAcSS, FRSA, FLSW (born 4 February 1952) is an English international relations theorist and long serving university leader.

He was appointed as the UK Prime Minister's Special Representative to Saudi Arabia for Education in October 2020 and reappointed as the UK Government Special Representative to Saudi Arabia for Education in December 2024.

From 1979 to 1992, he lectured at University of East Anglia, becoming director of the Centre for Public Choice Studies at UEA.

[3] In the period 2003 to 2004, he was president of the International Studies Association (ISA),[4] only the second non-American to receive this honour.

He co-authored Explaining and Understanding International Relations with the late Professor Martin Hollis.

[3] He was knighted in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours "for services to local and national Higher Education".

In October 2022 the University of Exeter named its Living Systems Institute in honour of its former Vice-Chancellor.