Career
He was a commodities trader in the City of London for 30 years. He was able to retire from the business early and became a consultant to the United Nations on trade relations between African countries and multinational companies. Since then he has worked for many development agencies on issues relating to agricultural trade policy and its impact on small scale farmers.
In 1971 he brought together specialist British metal traders to form the Minor Metals Trade Association.
This anti-apartheid pressure group was successful in curtailing the import of newly mined South African gold into the United States, Italy and Britain. In 2014 Peter made a contribution to ideas in Neuroscience - Dirty Walls: An evolutionary theory of the dream function, which was published in the International Journal of Dream Research.