Raj Patel

Raj Patel is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and academic. He is a research professor at the University of Texas, Austin. He has worked for the World Bank and WTO, and protested against them around the world. In 2016 he was recognized with a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award. He has written for The Guardian, the Financial Times, The New York Times, and Scientific American, among other publications. His books include Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and The Value of Nothing (a New York Times and international bestseller). He is the coauthor with Jason W. Moore of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things and with Rupa Marya of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.