Christian has over 26 years experience in Local and Regional Economy Development, Value Chain Development and improving business enabling environment. 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 intermittent team leader of different development programs in Vietnam and has built capacity of international and national consultants, national project staff and counterparts all over Southeast Asia during the last 16 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

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

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SED Programme Development in Nepal  
SED Programme Development in Nepal Sustainable economic development (SED) is one focal area of German Development Cooperation (GDC) in Nepal. Several projects have been implemented by GIZ, PTB and recently also by KfW within this focal area, but a topical and strategic roof…  
Milestones in a process of innovation, change and development  
This anthology brings together a large variety of articles and comments by development scholars and practitioners from all over the world.  
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…  
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