31 min

Ep. 121 - Siddharth Kara on How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives The Economics Review

    • Politics

Siddharth Kara is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery, he has authored three books and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. His first book was adapted into a Hollywood film called Trafficked, and a feature film inspired by his latest book, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, is currently in preproduction.

Siddharth Kara is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery, he has authored three books and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. His first book was adapted into a Hollywood film called Trafficked, and a feature film inspired by his latest book, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, is currently in preproduction.

31 min