David Smith is an architect and postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal’s School of Architecture. His research interests are located at the intersection between the built environment and food security, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, and collaborative governance. He holds a master’s degree in architecture from Université Laval in Canada and a master’s in development and emergency practice from Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. David completed his PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), before holding an assistant professor.  His doctoral thesis is titled “Marketplaces as critical urban infrastructure: Relational attributes and disaster resilience from the perspectives of traders and customers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.” Mail Twitter LinkedIn