Roger Bate is a British educated economist who has held a variety of positions in free market oriented organizations.
Bate was a tennis coach from 1984 to 1986 and between 1986 and 1989 worked as a research analyst for Warburg Securities and Charles Stanley Stockbrokers.
[4] In 1993, Bate worked for the Institute of Economic Affairs, a British free market think tank, and founded the Environmental Unit.
After the publication of this chapter, according to Bate, he undertook a brief period consulting for the Philip Morris corporation, working for £800 per day.
He noted that for [2][8][non-primary source needed] Bate is joint author, with Julian Morris of Fearing Food: Risk, Health and Environment, published by Butterworth-Heinemann in September 1999.
Prior to Phake, AEI Press published his book Making a Killing: The Deadly Implications of the Counterfeit Drug Trade in May 2008.