Louis Smit works as a senior advisor at the Netherlands
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment for corporate, internal and project communication.

After he graduated in Slavic languages and literature at the universities of Leiden and Prague, he started his career as a reporter and a foreign desk editor at the Netherlands national news agency (ANP) specializing in Central and Eastern Europe. 

At the Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Cultural Affairs, he was the editor-in-chief of the English written magazine Dutch Heights. After being a spokesman for the NCRV (Dutch television and radio) he became co-director of the public relations firm Van Dantzig & Lichtenveldt. Within the consultancy firm Burson-Marsteller in Prague and The Hague he built a marketing practice.

He worked as communication manager of the Dutch municipality of Zeist at the time of the Lockerbie trial which was held in ‘Camp Zeist’. At the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, he built and managed a new internet section embodying the basis structure for the information to the general public.