Roberto Pace was born in Sliema, Malta on 27th March 1979. He graduated in European Studies (BA. Hons.) and Diplomatic Studies (M.A.) at the University of Malta.

He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Second Secretary in 2007, where he started his career at the Protocol and Consular Services Directorate.

Between 2009 and 2013 he was posted to Malta’s Embassy in Rome, where he was in charge of consular and commercial matters as well as the Maltese diaspora living in Italy.

During 2013-2015, he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Directorate-General, Political, where he was responsible for Malta’s bilateral relations with the Mashreq countries and the Middle East Peace Process.

As of 2016, he served at Malta’s Permanent Representation to the United Nations and other Organisations in Geneva, where he was assigned to the economic desk (WTO, UNCTAD, WIPO, ITU, UNECE) for the first six months. During Malta’s EU Presidency in the first half of 2017, he covered human rights and democratisation (HRC, UPR) and health matters (WHO).

After being promoted to Counsellor in September 2019, he was posted as Malta’s Consul General in Istanbul, Turkey from 2020 to 2022.

As of 16 February 2022, he was nominated as Malta’s Ambassador-Designate to Egypt and non-resident Ambassador-Designate to Sudan. He presented his credentials to H.E. Mr. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, on 31 March 2022 and to H.E. Lt. Gen. Abdalftah Alburhan A. Alrahmen Alburhan, Head of the Transitional Sovereign Council of the Republic of the Sudan, on 9 February 2023.

Roberto Pace is married to Mrs. Bojana Dimitrovska.