Marcia Gilbert-Roberts

Marcia Gilbert-Roberts (born October 31, 1950 in Kingston ) is a Jamaican diplomat .

Life

Marcia Gilbert-Roberts is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish. In 1973 she completed a teacher training course at the University of the West Indies in Mona (Jamaica) . Since 1975 she is the master of psycholinguistics at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon . In July 1976, she joined the foreign service. From 1986 to 1991 she was Deputy Director in the Foreign Office. From 1991 to 1996 she was Deputy High Commissioner in London with the rank of Envoy . From 1996 to 1998 she was director in the Foreign Office.

From 2002 to 2007 she was ambassador in Bonn , at the same time she was accredited to the Holy See in Berlin (December 13, 2002), in Tel Aviv , The Hague , Prague , Bratislava , Warsaw (March 14, 2003) and Bern .

From October 2007 to December 2011 she was permanent representative at UNESCO in Paris. From May 29, 2008 to December 3, 2012 she was Ambassador in Brussels and was accredited to the European Commission with the governments in Paris (January 26, 2009), Luxembourg, Monaco, The Hague , Lisbon and Madrid .

In Brussels, she was involved in the negotiations on a follow-up agreement to the Cotonou Agreement , which will expire in 2020 . In 2005 she was awarded a Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory by John Paul II . In 2011 she was awarded the Order of Distinction with the rank of Commander .

predecessor	Office	successor
Esmond Reid	Jamaican ambassador in Berlin 2002–2007	Carol Lee Angella
Esmond Reid	Jamaican Ambassador to the Holy See 2002–2007	Carol Lee Angella
Evadne Coye	Jamaican Ambassador to the European Commission 2008–2012	Vilma Kathleen McNish

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press Office of the Holy See , cv
2. ↑ uesco
3. ^ Paris
4. ↑ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade , Ambassador Marcia Gilbert-Roberts: Negotiating the global tides in Brussels ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Jamaican ambassador to the European Commission