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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
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
- Political Economy Research Center, Visiting Scholar
Publications
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 , 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).
Articles
- Roger Bate, "USAID’s Health Challenge: Improving US Foreign Assistance," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, January 1, 2007
- Roger Bate, "The World Bank: false financial and statistical accounts and medical malpractice in malaria treatment," The Lancet, July 15, 2006
- Roger Bate, "Is Nothing Worse Than Tobacco?," Wall Street Journal Europe, July 24, 1996
- Roger Bate, "Eco-imperialism: Green Power; Black Death", Tech Central Station, January 21, 2004.
- Roger Bate, "Moore Wisdom Needed", Tech Central Station, February 10, 2004 .
- Roger Bate, "WHO’s on Last?: A politicized and irrelevant global agency", National Review, April 19, 2004.
DDT and tobacco
It has been claimed that Bate's work on DDT was funded by the tobacco industry, seeking to divert the attention of bodies such as the World Health Organization from campaigns against smoking.
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