in 2016 Roberts was born on 31 July 1959. He was educated at
Winchester College, then an all-boys
independent boarding school in Winchester, Hampshire. He studied English literature at
King's College, Cambridge, graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a
Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree. He then studied at
The Courtauld Institute of Art, completing a
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 1982. He previously served as
British Ambassador to Lithuania, from 2004 to 2008,
Commissioner of the
British Indian Ocean Territory and the
British Antarctic Territory from 2008 to 2012 and Director of the
FCO Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate from 2012 to 2014.—established a marine nature reserve around the
Chagos Islands known as the
Chagos Marine Protected Area. The designation proved controversial as the decision was announced during a period when the
UK Parliament was in recess. Later, in 2015, the
Permanent Court of Arbitration held that the establishment of the marine protected area was illegal under the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, as Mauritius had legally binding rights to fish in the waters surrounding the Chagos Archipelago, plus other rights.< In December 2012 it was announced that Roberts had been appointed
Governor of the Falkland Islands and
Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, to take up office in April 2014. In June 2017 the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced that Roberts would be leaving the Falklands, to be replaced as Governor and Commissioner by
Nigel Phillips in September 2017. ==References==