Paul Hohnen Sustainability Strategies

Facilitation

In his facilitation, Hohnen brings to bear a deep policy and stakeholder background, decades of experience in organizing effective meetings, and a ‘hard talk’ interview style. Among other events, he has facilitated and/or chaired:

• The annual UNEP business and industry conferences (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009)
• The annual Chatham House CSR conference (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• The annual EU Presidency CSR conference (2005, 2006)

Facilitating Club of Rome Global Assembly, Amsterdam, October 2009 (Photo: Robert Goddyn)

“I am writing to thank you for your remarkable contribution to the success of our Global Assembly in Amsterdam. From the very beginning, your warm and friendly manner and your evident mastery of content and process created a positive atmosphere which contributed enormously to the positive outcome of the Assembly.” Martin Lees, Secretary-General, Club of Rome (November 2009)

Upcoming and recent events include:

2010

“Congratulations on another successful ACCSR event — your moderating and speaking styles are really quite inspirational...”.

Participant feedback, February 2010

• Chatham House workshop on investment implications for oil industry of Deepwater Horizon disaster, London 29 July
• Private company sustainability strategy summit, Lucerne, 22-23 July
• Earth Charter 10th anniversary event (in the presence of HM Queen Beatrix), The Hague, 29 June
• GRI Organisational Stakeholder Assembly, Amsterdam, 26 May
• UNDP/FAO/Chatham House expert workshop on REDD+, London, 24-25, May
• IEA expert workshop on Smart Grids, Paris, 20 May
• Heineken in-house sustainability conference, Amsterdam, 15 April
• Heineken sustainable development symposium, Amsterdam, 13 April
• Facilitator, strategic corporate responsibility workshop for Australia Post, Melbourne, 22-23 February
• Speaker and moderator, ACCSR 4^th Annual Conference 'Meeting the Standard', Melbourne, 19 February 2010
• Moderator, UNEP/SAICM consultation on the role of the health sector in sound chemicals management, Ljubljana, 3-5 February

2009

“A world class facilitator.”.

Paul Scott, Managing Director, CorporateRegister, London (March 2009)

• Moderator, UNIDO High Level Round Tables (Green Growth, Sustainability Standards), Vienna, 8-9 December
• Moderator, Convention for Biological Diversity/UNEP Biodiversity and Business Conference, Jakarta, 1-3 December
• Moderator, Carbon Smart Workshop on Assurance of Sustainability Reports, London, 17 November
• Chair, Club of Rome Global Assembly 2009, Amsterdam 26-27 October
• Workshop on Peak Oil Demand, Chatham House, London, 13 October
• Moderator, UNIDO Ministerial Round Table on Green Industry, Manila, 9-10 September
• High Level Round Tables on Finance and Health, International Conference on Chemicals Management, Geneva, 14-15 May
• Chatham House stakeholder consultation, London, 1 April
• Annual Chatham House CSR Conference, London 30-31 March
• CorporateRegister Corporate Responsibility Reporting Debates, Royal Institution, London, 27 March
• UK Government consultation on draft EU Illegal Logging Regulation, Chatham House, London, 21 January

2008

“Facilitation is a fine art and you made it look easy.”

Nathan Fabian, Head of ESG Research, Regnan, Australia (February 2008)

• IUCN 30^th Anniversary Symposium, Amsterdam, 27 November
• TBLI Conference, Amsterdam, 14 November
• UNDP/EU Conference on CSR in Eastern and Central Europe, Vilnius, 9-10 September
• CEO Water Mandate Working Conference, Stockholm, 21-22 August, 2008
• Annual Chatham House CSR Conference, London, 13-14 March
• Capgemini Conference ‘Power Shift: How Climate Change and Security Concerns Will Change the European Energy market landscape’, Utrecht, 4 March
• ACCSR ‘Raising the Bar’ Conference, Sydney, 20 February
• International Roundtable on Extractives and Consumer Electronics, Brussels, 18 January

“Paul Hohnen has been a great facilitator of OECD Watch's conferences. Judging from participant feedback, Paul was again rated as one of the highlights of this year's event. In particular, his ability to perfectly summarize the discussions into a witty limerick was met with great enthusiasm.”

Joris Oldenziel, SOMO, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, Amsterdam (June 2007)

See also events in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007