Benjamin Mark Roberts brings operator-grade African infrastructure experience into AFRINIC's rebuilt board. AFRINIC's candidate page identifies him as Benjamin Mark Roberts, resident in Kenya, affiliated with Digital Economy Advisors Limited as Principal Advisor. AFRINIC's elected-candidates page names him for Board Seat 7, and the current board page lists him as the Non-Regional Africa director.
The relevant authority surface is not just a board title. AFRINIC describes board responsibilities that include address-allocation guidelines, broad internet-policy questions, budgets, fee conditions, executive employment conditions and committees. Roberts enters that governance surface with a background in African fibre backbone, peering, cloud-connectivity and policy work: AFRINIC's candidate material says he held Group Chief Technology and Innovation roles at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, led extensive pan-African backbone work, participated in internet-exchange development and represented the Kenyan private sector through KEPSA.
The current public role is Digital Economy Advisors. A Digital Economy Advisors byline shows Roberts writing on subsea-cable skills and African network resilience, while ITW Africa lists Ben Roberts as Principal Advisor at Digital Economy Advisors for a digital-infrastructure regulation panel. Kenya's ICT Ministry separately reports a ministerial forum with KEPSA ICT Sector Board leadership led by Chairman Ben Roberts. Those sources make the profile a live advisory and policy-convening signal, not a stale Liquid biography.
The limits matter. The evidence does not show that Roberts controls AFRINIC staff, personally allocates number resources, speaks for all African operators, still holds operating authority at Liquid, or has disclosed advisory clients tied to AFRINIC decisions. The useful reading is narrower: a former pan-African network executive and current digital-infrastructure advisor now sits inside the registry board at a moment when member trust, resource policy, governance legitimacy and infrastructure economics are tightly connected.
