Director of the Centre for Civil Society, in the University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Development Studies.
Patrick's authored and co-edited books include Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society (co-edited with Rehana Dada and Graham Erion) (Rozenberg Publishers and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007); Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation (Zed Books and UKZN Press, 2006), Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (UKZN Press, 2005); Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Africa World Press, 2005); Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance (Zed Books and University of Cape Town Press, 2003);