Early Life and Career
He was born in Glasgow in 1973 and grew up in Scotland and Saudi Arabia.
He returned to Scotland in 1986, and later studied Law and European Law at Leeds University and spent a year studying on the Erasmus Programme at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
He graduated from Nottingham Law School (a department of Nottingham Trent University) in 1996, and gained a Master's degree in European Studies from the College of Europe in Natolin (class of 1994-1995). He also for one year taught English in India and worked with Scotland Europa in Brussels.
Smith later moved to London where he qualified as a lawyer with commercial law firm Clifford Chance.
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