Patrick Schröder is a senior research fellow in the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House. He is a coordinating lead author for both the IPCC Assessment Report 7 (WG III – Mitigation) and the UN Global Environment Outlook 7. Patrick is also a member of the International Science Council Expert Group on Plastic Pollution. 

At Chatham House, he focuses on resource governance in critical mineral value chains, climate change security, the global challenge of plastic pollution and China’s role in energy transitions and international development. His academic work has been published in leading journals, including Nature Sustainability and the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and he has edited two books on the circular economy. His opinion pieces and comments appear in Foreign Policy, the Guardian, the Financial Times, The Independent, Devex, The Hill and China Daily, among others.

Before joining Chatham House, he was a research fellow at the University of Sussex’s Institute of Development Studies, and spent seven years in Beijing working with Chinese environmental NGOs, the European Union and GIZ
on climate and sustainability programmes.