Roger Bate is an adjunct fellow at CEI. He founded the Environment Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs in 1993 and co-founded the European Science and Environment Forum in 1994. He is a board member of the South African nongovernmental organization Africa fighting Malaria.
He has a PhD from Cambridge University and has recently returned from South Africa where he was advising the Government on water markets. He is currently working on a project for CEI on the link between deaths from malaria in developing countries and the push by western politicians and green activists for a ban on DDT.
Dr Bate is the editor of What Risk? (Butterworth Heinneman, 1997), a collection of papers that critically assess the way risk is regulated in society. He has also written several scholarly papers and numerous shorter scientific articles, for newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Accountancy, and LM. His most recent book is Life's Adventure: Virtual Risk in a Real World (Butterworth Heinemann, 2000).
recent op-eds & articles
Why the Top-Down Approach Has Failed
By Roger Bate, November 30, 2005
Stockholm Syndrome
By Roger Bate, August 27, 2003
The Brundtland Legacy
By Roger Bate, August 1, 2003
Much Ado About Nothing?
By Roger Bate, July 24, 2003
The Medicine Chest 'Villain': Roger Bate WT Op-Ed
By Roger Bate, January 9, 2001
recent studies
Culling To Be Kind: Why This Year’s Ivory Sales Will Help Elephant Conservation
By Roger Bate, March 15, 1999
Pick a Number: A Critique of Contingent Valuation Methodology and its Application in Public Policy
By Roger Bate, December 31, 1993
Pick A Number: A Critique of Contingent Valuation Methodology and its Application in Public Policy
By Roger Bate, November 30, 1993
