John Maxwell Roberts is a British structural engineer.
He was president of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) from 2003-2004 and the 2005 recipient of their Gold Medal.
He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BEng (1969) and a PhD (1972) in Civil & Structural Engineering.
[1] After his PhD, Roberts worked on motorway interchanges with McAlpine & Sons then in 1974 moved to Bertram Done & Partners and soon after to Allott & Lomax in Manchester as a design engineer.
Roberts was responsible for the engineering of the London Eye and British Airways i360[3] Roberts was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2005 and an Hon DEng by the University of Sheffield in 2006.