{"id":186,"date":"2026-11-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=186"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:11:01","slug":"raj-patel","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/speaker\/raj-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Raj Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/lbj\/\">Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs<\/a> at the University of Texas, Austin. He has worked for the World Bank and WTO, and protested against them around the world, and has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US, UK and EU governments. He has contributed to a range of publications, from <em>The Guardian<\/em>, to the <em>Financial Times, The Observer<\/em> and the <em>Scientific American<\/em>. His publications include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/127985\/stuffed-and-starved-by-raj-patel\/\"><em>Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> New York Times and international best-seller <a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780312429249\/thevalueofnothing\/\"><em>The Value of Nothing<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things\/paper\"><em>A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374602529\"><em>Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice<\/em><\/a>. His first film, co-directed with Zak Piper and filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is the award-winning documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antsandgrasshopper.org\/\">The Ants &amp; The Grasshopper<\/a>. He was a co-host of the food politics podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/kut-the-secret-ingredient\/id1039524314?mt=2\">The Secret Ingredient<\/a> with Mother Jones\u2019 Tom Philpott, and KUT\u2019s Rebecca McInroy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":187,"template":"","class_list":["post-186","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"acf":{"speaker_title":"Research Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Patel","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}