Anne Roberts

Canadian born Anne attended the University of Toronto studying modern languages and literature. She then went on to a career at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto advancing through various administrative roles to become assistant head of the accounting department in 1980, supervising and co-ordinating accounting services for over 50 curatorial and administrative departments.

Anne was successfully recruited by the Inuit organisation in the Western Arctic of Canada (the Inuvialuit) to assist as part of a team in setting up the head office administration of the Inuvialuit 1984. She aided in the negotiation of comprehensive lands claims agreement with the Government of Canada. Living and working north of the Arctic Circle for eight years, she undertook several roles including personal assistant to the Chairman, corporate secretary to the Board of Directors and manager of administrative operations which involved liaising with a constituency of 3,500 aboriginal people.

In 1993 Anne emigrated to Loughborough, England where worked as an office manager for a library consultancy firm based in Loughborough for four years; within this varied role, she acted as secretary to EIRENE (European Information Researchers Network).

Anne spent the next 18 years working as an administrative secretary for a national removals firm until she retired in 2015.