Linda A. H. Smythe is currently a Rotarian in Rotary’s District #7620 (71 Rotary clubs in Washington D.C & Central Maryland) and a member of Montgomery Village Rotary Club.

       Linda served for eighteen years as Greece’s Head of Mission to Bahrain in the capacity of Honourary Consul of Greece.  She also set up and ultimately managed the Bell Helicopter dealership for the Middle East from its offices in Bahrain. She has traveled extensively throughout the Arab world and has made many wonderful friends in the region. 

       She is a widow and has one son, Harry, who was born in Bahrain.  She is fluent in English, Greek, French and speaks some Arabic.

       Her first association with Rotary was in May 1996 when she joined the Rotary Club of Adliya, Bahrain in Rotary’s District #2450.

       She is Chairperson & Founder of the Basra, Iraq Prosthetics Project which she has been working on since early 2004.