Walter R. Roberts (August 26, 1916 – June 29, 2014) was an American writer, lecturer, and former government official.

In 1953, he was appointed Deputy Area Director for Europe in the newly created U.S. Information Agency (USIA).

In 1966, he was assigned as Diplomat in Residence at Brown University in Providence, R.I. and in 1967 he was transferred to Geneva, Switzerland to serve as Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

In 1985, he retired for the second time from the U.S. Government and was appointed diplomat-in-residence at The George Washington University where he taught a course on "Diplomacy in the Information Age" for ten years.

[9] After his personal recollections about Josip Broz Tito were published by American Diplomacy,[10] the Serbian newspaper Politika covered the story on its front page.