Ross Smith is a retired Queensland High School Principal and a past District Governor of Rotary International.

He has volunteered on Rotary Projects involving education and health issues in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Tanzania. He currently works for the University of Sydney on Prostate Cancer research and is a Rotary ambassador for the Malaria Vaccine Project at the Glycomics Institute within the Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus.

He is member of the Rotary Club of Burleigh Heads and is a keen cyclist.