Ivor Roberts (diplomat)

Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG ( born 1946 in Liverpool) is since 2006 President of Trinity College (Oxford) and was previously Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Yugoslavia, Ireland and Italy.

Life

After studying in Oxford ( Keble College), he received his diploma in 1968 and started to work as a linguist for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1992-1998 he was British Ambassador to the newly established Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro), from 1999 to 2003 in Ireland and in Italy in 2003.

In 2000 he was elevated to Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George. 2004 saw his statement that the policy of U.S. President George Bush is leading to ever more terrorism to a controversial debate. His blunt goodbye Report as ambassador to Italy was made public by an indiscretion in 2006 and eventually led to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ended the long tradition of diplomatic farewell reports.

Ivor Roberts is married to the Australian Balkan expert Elizabeth Smith, they have two sons and a daughter. After the failure of the Vienna Troika talks on the future of Kosovo, said Roberts 2007 for a partition of Kosovo.

2012, Roberts repeatedly voiced against the Serbian B92 for a land swap between Serbia and Kosovo. Thus, northern Kosovo to come to Serbia and the Presevo Valley to Kosovo. If this desire the voters, he would also advocate a union of this Kosovo with Albania. In this way it would in the Balkans continued to peace.