Mr. George Emmanuel Robert
Current Ombudsman May 2024 to date
Mr Robert has a Bachelor of Business (Business Economics) from the University of New England, Australia (2009), a Bachelor of Laws and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia (2011), and a Master of Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne, Australia (2020).
Mr Robert was admitted to the legal profession as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia, on 6 June 2011, where he thereafter worked as a solicitor in a private law firm. In 2012, Mr Robert moved to Seychelles and joined the Chambers of the Attorney General as a State Counsel. Thereafter, Mr Robert was admitted as an Attorney at Law of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Seychelles on 27 June 2014.
At the end of 2014, Mr Robert moved into private practice and worked as an Attorney-at-Law at the Law Chambers of Francis Changsam in Victoria, Seychelles. In October 2015, Mr Robert left private practice and was appointed a Magistrate of the Magistrates’ Court of Seychelles. In June 2017, Mr. Robert left the Magistrates’ Court to pursue a Master of Public and International Law at the University of Melbourne, which he completed in April 2020.
Nichole Tirant—Gherardi
Past Ombudsman March 2017 to April 2024
Barrister and Attorney at law LLB University of Liverpool. She started her career in the public service as an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture before joining the Attorney- General’s Chambers as State Counsel and later the private bar as an attorney.
She spent 11 years at the head of the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce & Industry as Secretary General before moving into business as managing editor and co-founder of a daily newspaper Today in Seychelles.
She left the paper upon appointment as Ombudsman.