Tom Smith

Tom isn an Associate Professor in International Relations for the University of Portsmouth based at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell where he is the Academic Director. He specialises in terrorism, political violence and insurgencies with a focus on Southeast Asia. He has fieldwork experience in Mindanao in the Philippines and Southern Thailand and is regularly asked by development, conflict and governmental organisations to contribute to research design, project planning and for advice.

A former Visiting Lecturer at De La Salle University in Manila. Tom is best known on an international basis for his expertise on the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Southern Philippines but has also become perhaps one of the UKs most recognised authorities on Filipino politics and Filipino foreign affairs and human rights.