My dad, Chris Rogers, who has died aged 79, served as head of the economics division on the College of Dundee for greater than 25 years. He was instrumental within the creation in 1987 of the college’s Centre for Vitality, Petroleum and Mineral Legislation and Coverage, the place he was a reader and director of PhD programmes. His specialism was commodity pricing, notably of iron ore and tin. He revealed a number of tutorial papers and in 1990 co-authored a e-book.
Chris travelled extensively, notably in China and Africa, finishing up consultancy work for UN businesses and mining corporations. He additionally labored on secondment for the Commonwealth Secretariat in Geneva in 1976, the United Nations Convention on Commerce and Improvement (UNCTAD) in 1977-78 in Geneva and later in Vienna, the European College Institute in Florence in 1987, and taught on the summer time faculty of Tianjin College within the late Nineteen Eighties.
All this was a far cry from his formative years in Atherton, Lancashire. Chris was born in Leigh, the youngest of 4 kids of Florence (nee Crump) and her husband, Fred Rogers, a mining supervisor. He was educated at Bolton faculty after which studied economics on the College of Liverpool.
In 1960, at a birthday celebration for a next-door neighbour, Chris had met Ann Burns. They married in 1964 whereas he was nonetheless a pupil, and went on to have three sons, my brothers, Tim and Ben, and me.
Chris’s first job was as a provide trainer in Widnes. In 1967 he was appointed an economics lecturer at Aberystwyth, which was then a school of the College of Wales. He moved to Dundee in 1970 as a lecturer throughout the economics division, and was made its head within the early Nineteen Eighties.
He was a gifted rugby participant, turning out for his faculty, the college, Waterloo (Union) and Liverpool Metropolis (League), and remained a fan of the game. He was very joyful final 12 months when his valuable Leigh received the Problem Cup, having been on the 1971 ultimate – the earlier time they’d received. Parkinson’s prevented a return go to and robbed him of an opportunity to totally take pleasure in his retirement, however he did handle to go to Australia a number of instances to see Tim and household.
My dad was an internationalist. He took time to know and respect the cultures of nations he visited, and taught his kids and grandchildren to respect all faiths, creeds and cultures.
He’s survived by Ann, Tim, Ben and me; 5 grandchildren, Cameron, Josephine, Iona, Isabel and Hamish, and his sister Rosemary.
