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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Roberts '''Nigel Roberts'''] has served as a member of the ICANN community since before ICANN was incorporated. He was a member of the [https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/board-of-directors ICANN Board] from 2018 to late October 2021.
He is founder and CEO of the [[Island Networks]] group of companies,<ref>[http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/nigel-roberts/3/268/b33 LinkedIn Profile]</ref> which runs the [[ccTLD]] registries of [[.gg]] (Bailiwick of Guernsey) and [[.je]] (Jersey). He was one of the first elected members of ICANN's [[DNSO|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 [[IFWP|International Forum on the White Paper]] in 1998.<ref>[http://www.wwtld.org/aboutcctld/history/wwtld1999/elections/nigel.html Names Council Statement of Interest]</ref>
==ICANN Involvement==
Roberts was selected by the [[ccNSO]] to serve on the [[ICANN]] [[ICANN Board|Board of Directors]]. in 2017 and served between 2018 and at the [[AGM]] in2021.
===Board Committees===
*[[Accountability Mechanisms Committee|Accountability Mechanisms]] | Chair
*[[Risk Committee|Risk]] | Member
*[[Strategic Planning Committee|Strategic Planning ]] | Member
*[[Technical Committee|Technical]] | Member
==Career==
Roberts began his career at the [[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 [https://alderney.gov.gg Alderney] in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
===Honors===
Roberts is a Chartered Fellow of the [https://www.bcs.org.uk British Computer Society], a Fellow of the [https://www.iod.gg Insitute of Directors], and a Fellow of the [https://www.rsa.org.uk Royal Society of Arts].
He was awarded an honorary doctorate from [https://essex.ac.uk Essex University] in part due to his work within ICANN.
==Education==
Nigel has a BSc in Computing Science from [https://essex.ac.uk Essex University] and an LLB from the [https://open.ac.uk 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==
He is an occasional radio presenter on [https://quayfm.gg QUAY-FM] and is Chair of their Board of Directors. He is also a director of the Royal Connaugh, a retirement home charity.. 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," by [[MIT]] predated the [[DNS]] itself by several years and contained no dots, ''(NIGEL@MIT-AI)''.
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