Acknowledgments
Special thanks go to Richard Gower, Joanne Green, Astrid Schomaker, Peter Laybourn, Mike Webster, Shardul Agrawala, Henrique Pacini, Charles Arden Clarke, Elisa Tonda, Nilgun Tas and Simon Armstrong.
We are very grateful for the insights of those who participated in our workshops on ‘Circular economy in developing countries’ held in Kolkata on 25 July 2017, New Delhi on 27 July 2017, Dar es Salaam on 31 August 2017, New York on 18 September 2017, Jakarta on 30 May 2018 and Bandung on 31 June 2018, as well as to those who participated in our workshop on ‘Circular economy and trade’ held in cooperation with the OECD on 20 April 2018 in Paris. In particular, we would like to thank Jon Price, Joyashree Roy, Leena Srivastava, Gwamaka Kifukwe, Jane Korinek, Silvana Paath and Christine Effendy for their invaluable input and support in bringing these workshops together. Thanks also to those who peer reviewed the paper – Jelmer Hoogzaad, Henrique Pacini, Bernice Lee, Antony Froggatt, Simone Cooper-Searle and Melissa MacEwen; and to those who reviewed specific sections – Duncan Brack and Siân Bradley.
This paper draws on a joint Chatham House–UNIDO survey conducted by the authors in August and September 2018. We are very grateful for the insights of those who participated in the survey.
We are grateful to our editor Jake Statham for his enthusiasm and meticulous editing of the paper. We are also thankful to the communications teams – comprising Oliver Courtney, Felicity Slater, Amy Barry, Stuart Coles and Jordan Lim – for their insight, feedback and support throughout the process. Thanks also go to Nick Capeling, Nina Black, Thomas Farrar, Gitika Bhardwaj, Jessica Pow and Jason Naselli for their help with the launch; and to Sarah Bunney and Autumn Forecast at Soapbox for their work on the design and production of the paper.
A number of members of the Chatham House Energy, Environment and Resources Department – both staff and interns – provided research and administrative support throughout the process: first and foremost, Neal Millar for his passion and hard work – together with Catherine Hampton, Melissa MacEwen, Ruth Quinn and Micheil Page.
Finally, thanks go to the Rockefeller Foundation for its generous support of this research, and in particular to Rachel Roberts for her continued help over the course of the project.