David Smick is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Smick International, Inc., a financial market advisory firm based in Washington, D.C. founded in 1985. The firm was the first of its kind to provide strategic informational services on important global economic and political/policy changes to the large macroeconomic-oriented hedge funds and proprietary trading departments of major financial institutions. Mr. Smick is also the founder, editor, and publisher of The International Economy (TIE) magazine.