Peter Robbins was a commodities trader in the City of London for 30 years. He was able to retire from that business early and became a consultant to the United Nations on trade relations between African countries and multinational companies. He then worked as an adviser to the African National Congress on trade sanctions against apartheid in South Africa. He is now working on establishing market information systems for tropical agricultural products in rural areas of Africa.
He has published several books on metals and agricultural markets and apartheid. They include:
Trading in Metals (Metal Bulletin, 1984)
Tropical Commodities and their Markets (Kogan Page, 1995)
Review of Market Information Systems in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana and Zimbabwe (Technical Centre for Agriculture, 2000)
Contributor to:
After Apartheid - Renewal of the South African Economy (University of York and James Currey, 1998)
The Sanctions Report (The Commonwealth Secretariat, Penguin Books, 1990)
Sanctioning Apartheid (Africa World Press Inc, 1999)
A Framework for Macroeconomic Policy in South Africa: Making Democracy Work (Centre for Development Studies, South Africa, 1993)
