Since joining Global Affairs Canada in 1999, Trevor Smith has worked on a range of non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament issues pertaining to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons and missiles.
He has been a member of Canada’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program since its establishment (2002), where he led the successful effort to establish biological security as a priority for the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (GP) and spearheaded the launch of the Signature Initiative to Mitigate Biological Threats in Africa (SIMBA).
He has overseen the initiation and implementation of more than $750 million in tangible threat reduction and capacity building programming by Canada in dozens of countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe, and has initiated and led numerous innovations and multi-sectoral collaborations to support partner countries, regions and international organisations to prevent, detect and respond to all manner of CBRN threats.
