Deputy Registrar Ken Roberts Deputy Registrar since 1 September 2009 Born in 1967. Canadian.

Mr. Ken Roberts was appointed Deputy Registrar of the ICTY on 1 September 2009.

Mr. Roberts has served with the ICTY for the past 11 years, specifically within Chambers. He held the position of Senior Legal Officer in the Appeals Chamber from February 2005 until his appointment as Deputy Registrar.

Mr. Roberts has in addition served as Associate Legal Officer to Judge Shahabuddeen between September 1998 and September 2000, and Legal Officer in Trial Chamber II between October 2000 and August 2004, before he assumed the duties of Acting Senior Legal Officer in the Appeals Chamber in September 2004. Between February and September 2002, he took special leave from the ICTY to serve as Chief of the Legal Policy Unit in the Department of Justice of UNMIK.

Prior to joining the ICTY, Ken Roberts articled for the Toronto office of Baker & McKenzie (August 1992 - July 1993) and worked as Associate Legal Officer for a Dakar-based project of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (January 1995 - July 1997). From September 1997 to August 1998, he worked both as Research Assistant for Professor James Crawford on a case before the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, and as a Rapporteur to a project of the European Commission studying penal provisions for the protection of European Finances (Corpus Juris).

Mr. Roberts is called to the Bar of Ontario, Canada. He holds an LLM from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science), an LLB from the University of Western Ontario, and a BA in International Relations from the University of Toronto. He has published articles in a number of legal fields including international criminal law.