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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Milestones in a process of innovation, change and development
Approaching Mesopartner themes in a complexity-sensitive way
Life cycles of LED paradigms in the last 50 years
Mapping the possibilities of change in complex environments
Local and Regional Economic Development Dialogue Facilitation Guidelines
Business Climate Survey (BCS) Manual - A brief handbook to replicate the approach in Nepal
Making dynamism in the Systemic Competitiveness framework explicit
Regional Economic Potential Analysis
Rapid Market Assessment of Responsible Tourism in Vietnam 2017
Mesopartner Working Paper 02
The beauty of circular value chains
Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA) Manual
How to introduce LED as an approach to economic change in a country
Twenty years of PACA – Retrospective reflections and opportunities for renewal
LED and MSD: Differences and complementarities
Reimagining LRED in Lumbini Province
Implications of migration for territorial development
Quality Infrastructure enables the Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved
Quality Infrastructure Rapid Diagnostic Tool - User Guide
Indonesia's and Germany's QI Systems at a Glance: A Comparative Analysis
Assessment of Malaysia's National Quality Infrastructure
What and why meso organisations?
How to identify meso organisations
Assessment of meso organisations for opportunities for improvement
The emergence of a meso space – Country Case Myanmar
Typology of Regions and meso organisations
The role of meso organisations in the Product Space
What exactly is green economic development
Shaping a climate smart and eco-friendly business environment
Innovation requirements of a climate-smart location
Mesopartner Working Paper 13
Mesopartner Working Paper 15
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Just (Energy) Transition as an interdisciplinary transformation challenge: Learning from the German experience
Blog Posts by Christian Schoen
Main field of expertise
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Local and regional economic development
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Value chain and cluster development
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Business/investment climate surveys and competitiveness rankings
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Pro-poor approaches to economic development
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Green economic development
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Program and project evaluations
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Quality Infrastructure
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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.