He was educated at the Rowans School Wimbledon, London, then King's College School, Wimbledon and subsequently Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English Language and Literature.
Gibbs joined the BBC in 1992, initially on the children’s news programme Newsround.
[2][4] In 2002, he was appointed BBC Cuba correspondent and moved to Havana.
[5] After having his press accreditation withdrawn by the Cuban government in 2007, Gibbs was appointed as the corporation’s Mexico correspondent.
He is the grandson of Keith Roberts, who in the 1940s was the chief scientist at the UK’s Anti-Submarine Experimental Establishment in Scotland.