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

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

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Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA)Manual  
The manual is complete handbook on how to conduct a Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA) exercise in the context of Nepal. The manual is based on the PACA experience gained in nine municipalities of Lumbini, Karnali and Sudurpachshim provinces under the Local…  
Quality Infrastructure Rapid Diagnostic Tool - User Guide  
Rapid Diagnostic Tool (RDT) is an instrument that helps quality infrastructure (QI) stakeholders and donor institutions assess the supply side of a QI ecosystem in a specific country.  
Reimagining LRED in Lumbini Province  
This booklet is about the accomplishments of the Local and Provincial Economic Development Programme (LPED) implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH from June 2019 to April 2023.  
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.  
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