Phillip Crowson

Phillip Crowson is an Honorary Professor and a part-time Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

Professor Crowson was educated at Reed's School, Cobham, Surrey, and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in economics. He first worked as an economist in the UK chemicals industry, for Distillers (1961-67), BP Chemicals (1967-68), and Albright and Wilson (1968-71). ln 1964 he was seconded to the National Economic Development Office (NEDO). He joined the Economics Department of the RTZ Corporation in July 1971, and became the company's Chief Economist in May 1981. He retired from Rio Tinto Limited (then known as RTZ-CRA) at the beginning of 1997. Until his retirement he was a director of several Rio Tinto subsidiaries, and he took an active role in many industry organizations, including the European Copper Institute, where he was chairman, and the Mining Association of the United Kingdom, of which he was president.

Phillip Crowson served as an Invited Director of the London Metal Exchange for a maximum possible twelve year term until May 2000, and still sits on some LME committees. He is the chairman of the LME's Special Committee. He edited the publication Minerals Handbook, the tenth edition of which was published in May 2001, and is the author of several books on the economics, policies and issues of the mining and minerals industries. He has written many published papers and articles on aspects of the mineral industries, including contributed chapters to several books, and he also lectures frequently.