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
