My dad, Chris Rogers, who has died aged 79, served as head of the economics department at the University of Dundee for more than 25 years. He was instrumental in the creation in 1987 of the university’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, where he was a reader and director of PhD programmes. His specialism was commodity pricing, particularly of iron ore and tin. He published several academic papers and in 1990 co-authored a book.
Chris travelled widely, particularly in China and Africa, carrying out consultancy work for UN agencies and mining companies. He also worked on secondment for the Commonwealth Secretariat in Geneva in 1976, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1977-78 in Geneva and later in Vienna, the European University Institute in Florence in 1987, and taught at the summer school of Tianjin University in the late 1980s.
