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Christian Schoen | Mesopartner

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. 

Christian is based in Hanoi, Vietnam since 2008

Publications by Christian Schoen

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Mesopartner, Christian Schoen

Milestones in a process of innovation, change and development

Christian Schoen, Dr Shawn Cunningham, Frank Wältring

Approaching Mesopartner themes in a complexity-sensitive way

Christian Schoen, Frank Wältring

Life cycles of LED paradigms in the last 50 years

Christian Schoen, Dr Shawn Cunningham

Mapping the possibilities of change in complex environments

Christian Schoen, Deepti Khakurel

Local and Regional Economic Development Dialogue Facilitation Guidelines

Christian Schoen, Deepti Khakurel

Business Climate Survey (BCS) Manual - A brief handbook to replicate the approach in Nepal

Christian Schoen, Dr Shawn Cunningham

Making dynamism in the Systemic Competitiveness framework explicit

Christian Schoen

Regional Economic Potential Analysis

Christian Schoen

Rapid Market Assessment of Responsible Tourism in Vietnam 2017

Christian Schoen, Jörg Meyer-Stamer

Mesopartner Working Paper 02

Christian Schoen, Dr Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke

The beauty of circular value chains

Christian Schoen, Deepti Khakurel

Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA) Manual

Christian Schoen, Marcus Jenal

How to introduce LED as an approach to economic change in a country

Christian Schoen, Dr Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke

Twenty years of PACA – Retrospective reflections and opportunities for renewal

Christian Schoen, Marcus Jenal

LED and MSD: Differences and complementarities

Christian Schoen, Deepti Khakurel

Reimagining LRED in Lumbini Province

Christian Schoen, Dr Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke

Implications of migration for territorial development

Christian Schoen, Dr Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke

Quality Infrastructure enables the Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved

Christian Schoen, Dr Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke

Quality Infrastructure Rapid Diagnostic Tool - User Guide

Christian Schoen

Indonesia's and Germany's QI Systems at a Glance: A Comparative Analysis

Christian Schoen, Dr Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke

Assessment of Malaysia's National Quality Infrastructure

Christian Schoen, Marcus Jenal

What and why meso organisations?

Christian Schoen, Dr Shawn Cunningham

How to identify meso organisations

Christian Schoen, Marcus Jenal, Dr Shawn Cunningham

Assessment of meso organisations for opportunities for improvement

Christian Schoen, Marcus Jenal

The emergence of a meso space – Country Case Myanmar

Christian Schoen, Dr Shawn Cunningham

Typology of Regions and meso organisations

Christian Schoen, Dr Shawn Cunningham

The role of meso organisations in the Product Space

Christian Schoen, Frank Wältring

What exactly is green economic development

Christian Schoen, Marcus Jenal

Shaping a climate smart and eco-friendly business environment

Christian Schoen, Frank Wältring

Innovation requirements of a climate-smart location

Christian Schoen, Jörg Meyer-Stamer

Mesopartner Working Paper 13

Christian Schoen, Dr Shawn Cunningham, Zini Godden

Mesopartner Working Paper 15

Christian Schoen, Frank Wältring

Just (Energy) Transition as an interdisciplinary transformation challenge: Learning from the German experience

Main field 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

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

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