Michael Smeath

Air Vice-Marshal Michael John Smeath, (born 2 October 1967) is a senior Royal Air Force officer.

Education
Smeath holds a Bachelor of Science from the Open University, a Master of Arts from King's College London, and is a graduate of Deakin University, Canberra.

RAF career
Smeath was commissioned into the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 15 January 1989. He served as officer commanding No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment. He went on to be Station Commander at RAF Honington in 2014, Liaison Officer to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee in July 2017 and Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Defence Staff in August 2018. In February 2020 Smeath was appointed Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C., with effect from August 2020. In January 2023, he was appointed director of the Global Defence Network in the Ministry of Defence; as such, he is head of the UK's military attaché world wide network.

Smeath was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 Birthday Honours, and advanced to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 New Year Honours.