Roger Bate

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Roger Bate, is an economist who has held a variety of positions in free market and conservative think tanks and lobby groups. His current work focuses on U.S. and international aid policy, performance of aid organizations, and health policy in developing countries, particularly with regard to malaria control and the use of DDT.

1 Academic titles
2 Positions held
3 Publications
- 3.1 Books
- 3.2 Articles
4 External links

[edit] Academic titles

Ph.D., economics, University of Cambridge

UK MPhil., land economy, University of Cambridge

UK MSc., environmental and resource management, University College, London University

UK B.A., economics, Thames Valley University, UK

[edit] Positions held

American Enterprise Institute, Resident Fellow
Africa Fighting Malaria, Co-director
Institute of Economic Affairs, Director of Environmental Unit, 1993-2000; fellow, 2000-
European Science and Environment Forum (ESEF), Founder and Executive Director, 1995-2001
International Policy Network, Director, 2001-2003, Fellow 2003
Sustainable Development Network, "Member"
Competitive Enterprise Institute, Adjunct Fellow
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, Advisory Board
Warburg Securities and Charles Stanley & Co. (stockbrokers), Research Analyst, 1986-1989
Presenter of the BBC2 program Organic Food: The Modern Myth

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books

There has been some controversy surrounding a book he attemped to fund in the 1990s. In 1996, Roger Bate approached R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for a grant of £50,000 to fund a book on risk, containing a chapter on passive smoking [2], but the grant request was denied and the money was never received. That same year he wrote the article "Is Nothing Worse Than Tobacco?," for Wall Street Journal and in 1997, the ESEF published What Risk? Science, Politics and Public Health, edited by Roger Bate which included a chapter on passive smoking.

Bate is joint author, with Julian Morris of Fearing Food: Risk, Health and Environment. The IEA website describes the book in the following way : "In the latest ESEF book, Fearing Food, new agricultural and food technologies, including genetic engineering, are shown to be generally beneficial both to health and to the environment." (Fearing Food was published by Butterworth-Heinemann in September 1999).