Andrew Smith

Since 2021, Andrew Smith has been focused on the security of the Yukon and how investments in infrastructure and defence procurement can make the territory more secure and economically prosperous. In 2024, he was tasked with bringing to fruition the Canadian Institute for Arctic Security (CIAS), a new think-tank and the first of its kind in Northern Canada.

In his international relations work for Yukon government, he has been responsible for delivering high-profile international engagements for Yukon's Premier, including the 2023 mission to Japan and India, Yukon’s portion of Canada’s Northern Diplomatic Tour, Alaska Governor Dunleavy’s 2024 visit to Whitehorse, two missions to London, U.K., in 2023 and 2024, and visits to Iceland and Greenland in 2022.

Andrew regularly represents the Yukon at the Arctic Circle Assembly, Arctic Encounter Symposium, and Canada’s Arctic Security Working Group. He was one of two Yukon delegates at the Future Arctic Leaders Conference during Canada’s chairing of the Arctic Council in 2015, and the sole Canadian to attend International Arctic Student Week at the Moscow Institute of International Relations in 2016.