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After stints working at both the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, Patel has since been an activist opposing their policies on four continents. He is a Fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy and an Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Patel has appeared on CNN, BBC, NPR, PBS, and Al Jazeera, and he testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on the origins of the 2008 global food crisis. According to Canada’s The Globe and Mail, he “successfully connects the dots of seemingly disparate issues like hunger, obesity, free trade, rural depopulation, and food safety to create the picture of a food system run by corporate greed.” Patel earlier co-authored Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice Patel holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics, and a doctorate in Development Sociology from Cornell. He is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, was formerly a visiting scholar at Yale, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has spoken throughout the United States as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, India, Thailand, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Raj Patel speaks on food and agriculture, making the case for reform of a globalized food system that simultaneously produces hunger and obesity while destroying sustainable ways of life, and on the relationships between our economic system and environmental and social needs. Videos are available here. To discuss Raj Patel as a possible speaker, please call our toll-free number, 866-658-4848, or send us an email message here.
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Raj Patel, author of the internationally acclaimed 
, is a trail-blazing critic of conventional agricultural development policies. His most recent book, 
, expands the critique to economics as a whole. It was a 2010 New York Times best seller on both the non-fiction and business lists. Publishers Weekly calls it “shrewd and absorbing,” while Michael Pollan says it “shows us a path out of the darkness of the economic woods.”
and 
. He writes regularly for the leading British newspaper The Guardian, and has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, NYTimes.com, The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Mail on Sunday, and The Observer, among others. His work on sustainability, food and economics has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He has also published widely in the academic press, with articles in peer-reviewed philosophy, politics, sociology and economics journals.
