Biography - Anuradha Mittal

Anuradha Mittal, a native of India, is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights, democracy, and agriculture issues. After working for ten years as the policy director and then the co-director at the Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First, Ms. Mittal established The Oakland Institute in 2004.

The Oakland Institute is a policy think tank based in the US that works to ensure public participation and democratic debate on the most crucial economic and social policy issues that affect peoples' lives through nonpartisan research, analysis, and advocacy.

Trained as a political scientist in India and England, Ms. Mittal is the author and editor of numerous articles and books including America Needs Human Rights, The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance, and Voices From the South: Third World Speaks Out Against Genetic Engineering.

Her articles and opinion pieces have been published in widely circulated newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Bangkok Post, Economic and Political Weekly, Houston Chronicle, and the Nation. She is constantly invited to give keynote addresses including events hosted by governments and universities, and has appeared on television and radio shows around the world.

Ms. Mittal serves on the boards of several non-profit organisations including Polaris USA and the California Coalition for Fair Trade and Human Rights. Prior to coming to the US, she worked with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), a major development group in India.