Raj Patel is a James Beard Award-winning activist and New York Times bestselling author. He has testified about food and hunger before governments in the US, UK and EU, and his book about the food system, "Stuffed and Starved" has been translated into a dozen languages. He has worked for the World Bank and the WTO and has been gassed on four continents when protesting their policies. His academic career spans Oxford, London School of Economics, Cornell University, and the University of California at Berkeley where he taught with Michael Pollan. He is currently a research professor at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.