Colin Roberts practices as an International Natural Resources Geo‐strategist. He is an International Arbitrator, Chartered Petroleum Engineer, Chartered Mining Engineer, Chartered Scientist, Resources & Investment Legal Academic, Accredited International Commercial and investment Mediator, Adjudicator, Expert Determiner and Dispute Board Member, with over 50 years of multi-disciplinary resource industry experience, most of which has been in the developing world.

Colin is also a Professor of International Petroleum and Investment Law & Economics at WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering – Curtin University and a visiting professor at various other universities worldwide.

Colin holds, and has held, numerous public and private directorships, and among others was for eight years, the Honorary Investment Consul for Pakistan in Australia, Authorized Emissary for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) ‐ World Bank Group, Australian Consular Warden – Zambia, Past Chairman of the AusIMM‐WA, Past-Chairman of the Mining Institute of Scotland, Past‐Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers–WA (SPE) and has served or is serving on committees and boards of Energy Resources Law (formerly AMPLA), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Australian Institute of Energy (AIE), and others.

In his spare time, he serves as Patron of the International Bar Association (IBA), the AusIMM Ethics Committee and the AusIMM Perth Branch Committee.