Christian Schoen

Christian has over 30 years of experience in Local and Regional Economy Development, Value Chain Development, Business-enabling Environment and Quality Infrastructure. He has been involved in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating economic development projects in Europe, Africa and Asia for various development organisations and donors. Christian has worked as a process facilitator and intermittent team leader of different development programs in Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam and has built the capacity of international and national consultants, national project staff and counterparts all over Southeast Asia and South Asia during the last 20 years. 

Main fields of expertise

  • Local and regional economic development
  • Value chain and cluster development
  • Business/investment climate surveys and competitiveness rankings
  • Pro-poor approaches to economic development
  • Green economic development
  • Program and project evaluations
  • Quality Infrastructure
  • Market Systems Development

Working experience

2003: Founding partner of Mesopartner
2002-2003: Freelance consultant
2001-2002: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft e.V., Jakarta (Indonesia), PERISKOP project coordinator and senior consultant 
1999-2000: Fraunhofer Management GmbH, Munich (Germany), senior consultant 
1992-1999: Dorsch Consult Ingenieurgesellschft mbH, Munich (Germany), consultant 

Working experience in Asia, Europe and Africa.

Personal background

Born 1965, MA in economics (Munich 1991)

Christian is based in Hanoi, Vietnam since 2008

Contact

You can reach me via E-Mail and request a CV.

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Publications by Christian

 
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CALIDENA in the Dairy Sector in rural Nepal  
CALIDENA in the Dairy Sector in rural Nepal In 2018, PTB and its project counterparts in Nepal decided to apply the CALIDENA approach in the milk and dairy sector with a specific regional focus on the midwestern region, particularly Province 5. The key event of the CALIDENA…  
Tourism Value Chain Analysis (VCA) in Northern Shan State, Myanmar  
Tourism Value Chain Analysis (VCA) in Northern Shan State, Myanmar In September 2018 commissioned by the ILO, Christian Schoen was leading a tourism VCA in Hsipaw, Myanmar, with a local team of tourism actors and local government representatives. Hsipaw…  
Quality Infrastructure enables the Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved  
In 2015 the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which provides a framework for peace and prosperity for the planet and its people. 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form the core of the 2030 Agenda. The SDGs demand concerted action in a…  
Territories matter for development  
People who work in territorial development are strongly inclined to assume that regions are relevant entities for intervention and change. This assumption, however, is questioned by the New Economic Geography, which advocates place-neutral or “space blind” approaches.  
Mesopartner Working Paper 15  
Revisiting the Hexagon of LED as a framework to strengthen LED initiatives. This document is targeted to trainers and facilitators that use the Hexagon of Local Economic Development (LED) to introduce LED concepts during training events. It is a reflection on the way that we use…  
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