Patrick Schroeder is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He previously worked as a Senior International Advisor to the China Association for NGO Cooperation from 2009-2013 in Beijing as part of the GIZ/CIM Sino-German cooperation on climate change. He was involved in the EU-China Environmental Governance Programme (2011-2013) and the EU-China Civil Society Dialogue Programme on Participatory Public Policy (2011-2014).