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Raj Patel is a renowned writer, filmmaker and scholar, currently serving as Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
He studied at Oxford University, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, worked at the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, and has been widely involved in international social movements. He has testified to the US, UK and EU governments on the causes of the global food crisis, and is a member of the International Panel on Sustainable Food Systems. In 2016, he received the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award.
In addition to his scholarly work in economics, philosophy, political science and public health journals, he regularly contributes to The Guardian and has been featured in major publications such as The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Observer and Scientific American.
His representative books include Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, The Value of Nothing (a New York Times and international bestseller), A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (co-authored with Jason W. Moore) and Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice (co-authored with Rupa Marya).
He also co-directed the award-winning documentary The Ants & the Grasshopper with Zak Piper and is the host of the food politics podcast The Secret Ingredient with Mother Jones's Tom Philpott and KUT's Rebecca McInroy.
拉吉・帕特尔是知名作家、电影制作人与学者，现任美国得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校林登・B・约翰逊公共事务学院研究教授。他曾就读于牛津大学、伦敦政治经济学院与康奈尔大学，曾在世界银行及世界贸易组织任职，并广泛参与国际社会运动。他曾就全球粮食危机的成因向美国、英国及欧盟政府提供证词，同时是国际可持续粮食系统专家小组（International Panel on Sustainable Food Systems）成员。2016 年，他荣获詹姆斯・比尔德基金会领导力奖（James Beard Foundation Leadership Award）。
除了在经济学、哲学、政治学及公共卫生领域期刊发表学术成果外，他还定期为《卫报》（The Guardian）供稿，其观点也常见于《金融时报》（The Financial Times）、《纽约时报》（The New York Times）、《星期日邮报》（The Mail on Sunday）、《观察家报》（The Observer）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）等主流出版物。
他的代表作包括《饱食与饥饿：全球粮食体系的隐秘战争》（Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System）、《一无所有的价值》（The Value of Nothing，该书为《纽约时报》及国际畅销书）、《用七样廉价之物看懂世界史》（与贾森・W・穆尔合著，A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things），以及《炎症：深度医学与不公的解剖》（与鲁帕・玛丽亚合著，Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice）。
此外，他与扎克・派珀（Zak Piper）联合执导了获奖纪录片《蚂蚁与蚱蜢》（The Ants & the Grasshopper），并与《琼斯母亲》杂志的汤姆・菲尔波特（Tom Philpott）及得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校公共广播电台（KUT）的丽贝卡・麦金罗伊（Rebecca McInroy）共同主持美食政治播客《秘方》（The Secret Ingredient）。
