Dr Patrick Schröder

Senior Research Fellow, Environment and Society Centre

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Biography

Dr. Patrick Schröder is an expert in the global transition to an inclusive circular economy, with a particular emphasis on international policy coordination, bridging the investment gap, the role of global trade, and the contribution of the circular economy to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Before joining Chatham House, Dr. Schröder was a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. From 2008 to 2015, he was based in Beijing, where he worked extensively on development cooperation programmes for the European Union and climate change initiatives with the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ).

Currently, he serves as the Coordinating Lead Author for UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook 7 and is a member of the International Science Council’s expert group on plastic pollution.

He holds a BA (Hons) in Chinese from the University of Westminster and earned his MA in International Relations and PhD in Environmental Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Past experience

2016-19Research fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
2013-16Key expert, EU SWITCH-Asia Network Facility
2009-13Senior international advisor, GIZ/CIM 
2008-09Consultant, Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)
2007-10PhD Environmental Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing