Pratap Chatterjee

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Pratap Chatterjee (b. Birmingham, United Kingdom) is an Indian/Sri Lankan investigative journalist and progressive author. He is a British citizen and was raised in India, although he now lives in California. He serves as the executive director of CorpWatch, an Oakland-based anti-globalization and corporate accountability organization. He was a member of the board of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network from 2001 to 2005, and was an Environmental Commissioner for Berkeley from 1998 to 2003. He also served as a community advisor to KQED, the San Francisco public radio and television station. In the late 1990s, Chatterjee did a great deal of research surrounding the 1849 California Gold Rush and how it affected Californian American Indians [1]. In 2004, Chatterjee published the well-received Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Invasion. He has been published in a number of popular media, including the Financial Times, The New Republic, The Guardian, and The Independent. He often appears as a guest expert in a wide variety of media ranging from Fox TV to Democracy Now! His writing has won a number of awards, from the National Newspaper Association and Project Censored, among others.

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• Chatterjee, Pratap (2004). Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Invasion. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-58322-667-2. 
• Chatterjee, Pratap (1996). Gold, Greed, and Genocide: Unmasking the Myth of the '49ers. Project Underground. 
• Chatterjee, Pratap; Matthias Finger (1994). The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10963-9. 

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• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Diyarbakır Dispatch: Border Guard." The New Republic, February 13, 2003. [2]
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Gold, Greed, and Cyanide." Dollars & Sense, January 1, 1999. Economic Affairs Bureau; 26 pages. ISBN B00098L4SK.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Scramble for the Caspian: Big Oil Looks to Divvy up Caspian Sea Oil Riches." Multinational Monitor, September 1, 1998. Essential Information, Inc.; 11 pages. ISBN B00098K6R0.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Guarding the Multinationals: DSL and the International Private 'Security' Business." Multinational Monitor, March 1, 1998. Essential Information, Inc.; 9 pages. ISBN B000986GQK.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Toxic Racism: Chippewas Resist Deadly Dumping." Dollars & Sense, May 1, 1997. Economic Affairs Bureau; 6 pages. ISBN B00097N7RC.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Peru Goes Beneath the Shell: Shell Oil Co.'s Natural Gas Operations in Peru)." Multinational Monitor, May 1, 1997. Essential Information, Inc.; 7 pages. ISBN B00097O95G.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "The Mining Menace of Freeport-McMoRan." Multinational Monitor, April 1, 1996. Essential Information, Inc.; 11 pages. ISBN B00096JXP8.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "World Bank Brownout": Electricity Projects in India Displaces Slum Dwellers." Multinational Monitor, December 1, 1995. Essential Information, Inc.; 7 pages. ISBN B00093TTDW.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Enron Deal Blows a Fuse." Multinational Monitor, July 1, 1995. Essential Information, Inc.; 12 pages. ISBN B00093O8GK.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Invasion of the 'Body Shoppers': India's Information Technology Industry." Multinational Monitor, May 1, 1995. Essential Information, Inc.; 9 pages. ISBN B00093NROY.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "Slush Funds, Corrupt Consultants and Bidding for Bank Business." Multinational Monitor, July 1, 1994. Essential Information, Inc.; 9 pages. ISBN B00092XK5G.
• Chatterjee, Pratap. "True Confessions of the World Bank." Multinational Monitor, July 1, 1994. Essential Information, Inc.; 7 pages. ISBN B00092XK60.