Dr. Troy Smith

Biography

Dr. Troy Smith is a criminologist and national security practitioner from Trinidad and Tobago with 18 years of experience in a mix of intelligence analysis, cyber policy and specialist security education. He is Dean of a specialist academy within the Ministry of Homeland Security, Trinidad and Tobago, and Associate Professor at Pôle Universitaire Euclide.

Since 2024, he has served as a Short-Term Cybersecurity Expert with Expertise France for the EU-LAC Digital Alliance Policy Dialogue. In this role he co-authored the CARICOM Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Action Plan 2025 with CARICOM IMPACS, EL PAcCTO 2.0 and EU partners. He contributes to an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Cyber and contributed to the EU-funded CYBERSPACE project’s policy options for responding to cyberattacks.

Dr. Smith is a 2024 EU Cyber Diplomacy Fellow (EU Cyber Direct). He has written more than 40 journal articles, book chapters and policy publications on cybercrime, online behaviour, international law and ethics in cyberspace, AI-enabled disinformation and small-state cyber resilience, in outlets including Global Governance and the Journal of Military Ethics.

His specialist training includes cyberdiplomacy (UNODA), national cybersecurity strategy (ITU Academy), international law applicable in cyberspace (Cyber Law International/University of Reading, sponsored by Global Affairs Canada) and AI governance (UNESCO/University of Oxford Saïd Business School).