Peter Robbins (author)

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Peter Robbins (born 1946) is a British author known for Stolen Fruit and a range of books about precious metals, tropical commodities, trade sanctions, market information, and supporting rural communities. He spent 30 years as a commodities trader in the City of London, retired early, and then worked as a consultant to the United Nations on trade relations between African countries and multinational companies. He also advised the African National Congress on sanctions against apartheid and has worked with development agencies on how agricultural trade policy affects small farmers.

Robbins helped found the Minor Metals Trade Association in 1971 and was a founder member and Chair of the World Gold Commission from 1988 to 1995, a group that helped limit the import of newly mined South African gold into the United States, Italy, and Britain. He also helped start the London Equality Group in 2010 to campaign for reducing wealth and income inequality in London and served as Chair of My Fair London until 2013. In 2014 he contributed ideas to neuroscience with Dirty Walls: An Evolutionary Theory of the Dream Function, published in the International Journal of Dream Research.

Selected works include guides to non-ferrous metals and their markets, precious metals, and trading in metals, along with Stolen Fruit: The Tropical Commodities Disaster (2003) and various reports on agriculture, trade, and development.