Nigel Roberts
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Nigel Roberts has served as a member of the ICANN community since before ICANN was incorporated. He was a member of the ICANN Board from 2018 to late October 2021.
He is founder and CEO of the Island Networks group of companies,[1] which runs the ccTLD registries of .gg (Bailiwick of Guernsey) and .je (Jersey). He was one of the first elected members of ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organisation (DNSO) Council, representing the ccTLD constituency. The DNSO is the forerunner of today's GNSO and ccNSO.
Roberts has been involved with ICANN since its earliest days and took part in the U.S. Government's International Forum on the White Paper in 1998.[2]
ICANN Involvement[edit | edit source]
Roberts was selected by the ccNSO to serve on the ICANN Board of Directors. in 2017 and served between 2018 and at the AGM in2021.
Board Committees[edit | edit source]
- Accountability Mechanisms | Chair
- Risk | Member
- Strategic Planning | Member
- Technical | Member
Career[edit | edit source]
Roberts began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Before founding CHANNELISLES.NET in 1996, he worked for a number of companies and international organizations throughout Europe as an independent consultant/contractor, including BT, SWIFT, and the European Environment Agency in Denmark.
Together with another ex-DEC employee, he founded Island Networks in 1996. Island Networks is based on the small island of Alderney in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Honors[edit | edit source]
Roberts is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Insitute of Directors, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Essex University in part due to his work within ICANN.
Education[edit | edit source]
Nigel has a BSc in Computing Science from Essex University and an LLB from the OU/College of Law.
During his time at Essex, he played a minor role in one of the groups of students who created the world's first multi-user computer game. He is a Chartered Engineer.
Fun Facts[edit | edit source]
He is an occasional radio presenter on QUAY-FM and is Chair of their Board of Directors. Roberts has been involved with the Internet for so long that his very first email address, which was given as a "tourist on the ARPAnet" in 1978 by MIT predated the DNS itself and contained no dots, (NIGEL@MIT-AI).