Kristin Roberts

Counselor for Public Affairs

U.S. Embassy Athens, United States

Kristin Roberts is a U.S. diplomat and strategic communications professional with nearly two decades of experience guiding governmental communications. She is currently the Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. Ms. Roberts is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Fulbright Foundation in Greece and sits on the Board of the Foreign Service Families with Disabilities Alliance. She is a former State Representative to the American Foreign Service Association Governing Board (2019-2021).

Ms. Roberts began her career with the U.S. Department of State in 2005. She most recently served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and the Director of the Office of Policy in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). In this role, she developed and executed strategies for using exchanges, education, and public-private partnerships to promote national security objectives. 

Before joining ECA, Ms. Roberts provided public diplomacy support in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs to the U.S. Embassies in Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey and U.S. Missions to NATO and the European Union. Ms. Roberts also served as the press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she stood up a strategic communications apparatus for the host government. She oversaw the Public Affairs Office at the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and served as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in Washington, DC. Prior to those postings, she worked in the State Department Operations Center, the 24/7 command center for crisis management and communications. Ms. Roberts has also served overseas at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and at the U.S. Mission to the European Union.

Prior to embarking on her career as a diplomat, Ms. Roberts was a practicing attorney and social worker in Seattle, Washington. Ms. Roberts earned a bachelor’s degree in social work and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Washington. She has studied Greek, Georgian, Russian, Urdu, and Swedish. She is married to fellow Foreign Service Officer, James Morris, and they have two children.