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“Paul Hohnen is ... regarded as one of the world's leading moderators of high level sustainability events.”

Green Strategy 2010 Conference, London

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:


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

“In March 2012, UN Global Compact, UNICEF and Save the Children globally launched the Children's Rights Business Principles. For the launch, held at the prestigious One Great George Street in London, United Kingdom, we had the privilege to have Paul Hohnen as our master of ceremonies and moderator. With perfection, professionalism and a deep knowledge, Paul lead the 200+ audience of business executives, child-rights experts and government officials throughout the full day. We were extremely satisfied with Paul's contribution.”

Elisabeth Dahlin, co-chair of the Child Rights Business Principles Initiative and Secretary-general, Save the Children Sweden

Upcoming and recent events include:

2015

“You did a great job as moderator - keeping everything running smoothly, asking searching questions and making sure everyone had adequate opportunity to make a contribution. I came away feeling that I had learned a lot from the event as there were so many excellent presentations and panel discussions. Your role as moderator was very important in terms of ensuring a successful forum.”

(Written panellist feedback, 1 May 2015)

  • Chair, Chatham House expert meeting on forests and reporting, London, 19 October
  • Side event on Sustainable Chemistry, ICCM 4, Geneva, 1-2 October
  • Moderator, high level segment, Sustainable Chemistry Conference: The Way Forward, Berlin, 24-25 September
  • Chair, CEAMaS Closing Event, Brussels, 17 September
  • Co-chair, expert meeting on international chemicals management, Brussels, 15 June
  • Moderator, VinylPlus Sustainability Forum, Cannes, 30 Apri

“93% participants to a post-conference survey in May 2015 considered Hohnen's moderation to be either 'excellent' (55%) or 'very good' (38%).”

2014

“It was a great pleasure for us that you supported us with the preparation and realization of our stakeholder dialogue day. You are a not only an excellent expert but as well a brilliant moderator and thanks to your contribution we really spent an interesting day together.”

(Written feedback from Deutsche Telekom, March 2015)

  • UNIDO Chemical Leasing Conference, Vienna, 10 December
  • MC and plenary moderator, cd2e/avniR International Life Cycle Assessment Conference, Lille, 5-6 November
  • Chair, UNCTAD World Investment Forum Panel on Mobilising the Private Sector, Geneva, 16 October
  • Moderator, UNIDO/UNEP Green Industry Platform Advisory Board, New York, 22 September
  • Chair, UNIDO/UNEP Green Industry Platform Technical Expert Committee, Vienna, 26 June
  • Chair, Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings, Chatham House, London, 11 June
  • Facilitator, VinylPlus Sustainability Forum, Rome, 8-9 May
  • MC & chair, Energy/Climate experts meeting, Amsterdam, 23 May
  • Chair, Chatham House High Level Global Energy Experts Meeting, London, 30 April
  • Moderator, Deustche Telkom Sustainable Procurement Stakeholder Dialogue Day, Bonn, 26 March

“I wish to pay a special tribute to you as an exceptional moderator who guided us into a very good, clear and action oriented common performance. It was a special pleasure, and an inspiring one.”

(Ambassadorial written feedback, 16 October)

2013

“...my thanks for your invaluable contribution... (t)he proceedings would not have been a success without you.”

Personal communication from Lilianne Ploumen, Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation following World Water Day celebrations, 3 April

  • Moderator, UNIDO Green Industry Conference, Guangzhou, 7-9 November
  • Session leader, Global Issue Platforms , UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, New York, 20 September
  • Chair, Green Industry Platform Side Event, UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, New York, 19 September
  • Moderator, High Level Panel on Green Industry, UNIDO Middle Income Countries Conference, San Jose, 13 June
  • Chatham House Conference on 'Resources Futures', London, 5 June
  • Chair, Vienna Energy Forum session 'Energy and Green Growth', Vienna 29 May
  • Moderator, Annual UN System Private Sector Focal Points Meeting, 24-25 April
  • Facilitator, Paris Forum High Level Conference Round Table 'Green Industry for a Sustainable Economy', Paris, 4 April
  • Moderator, 1st meeting of the UNIDO/UNEP Green Industry Platform Advisory Board, Paris, 3 April
  • Moderator, 1st Green Industry Platform Technical Expert Committee, Vienna, 25 March
  • Co-facilitator, Wings for Water and World Water Day, The Hague, 21-22 March
  • Lead faculty member, UNCTAD CSR Executive Retreat, Geneva, 12-14 March
  • Chair, ACCSR Annual Conference on CSR and Leadership, Melbourne, 13 February
  • Chair, Energy and Investment expert meeting, Chatham House, London, 5 February

2012

“Thank you so much for your excellent facilitation of the event. I was impressed by the level of organisation and professionalism that your brought; as well as how articulate and elegantly you presented the issues and skilfully 'steered' the conversations...”

Client written feedback on global launch of Children's Rights and Business Principles, London, 12 March

  • Chair, Expert Workshop on Coal and European Policy Options, Chatham House, London, 14 December
  • Moderator, ministerial level UNIDO International Development Board platform on Green Industry, Vienna, 21 November
  • Facilitator, avnir Life Cycle Analysis Conference,Lille, 6-7 November
  • Moderator, UNIDO Asia 2050 Round Table, 13 September, Vienna
  • Sustainability session leader, Hager Summer School , France, 25-27 June
  • Moderator and keynote speaker, UNICEF Serbia Children's Rights and Business Principles launch, Belgrade, 7 June
  • Facilitator, 10th Conference of the Association on the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), Vienna, 28 May-1 June
  • Moderator, UNIDO planning group on Green Industry Platform, Vienna, 3-4 May
  • Moderator, UN Business Focal Points meeting, Vienna, 28-29 March
  • Chair, Chatham House experts meeting on international energy institutions, London, 21 March
  • Master of Ceremonies, Global Launch of the Children's Rights and Business Principles, London, 12 March
  • Chair, ACCSR Conference on the Innovation Imperative, Melbourne, 15 February

“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.

2011

“You were also one of the key success factors for our Business and Industry Global Dialogue event held in Paris this April. We appreciated your substantive contribution in developing an excellent background paper, supporting agenda development, as well as engaging and briefing speakers. ... Congratulations are also due to your keen creativity which wove together the panelists to tease out and underscore key themes and engage the audience ...”

Sylvie Lemmet, Director, UNEP Division for Technology, Industry and Economics, 26 April 2011

“Many thanks again for moderating our third multi-stakeholder symposium. You brought a depth of preparation and understanding to proceedings which greatly helped reaching a meaningful conclusion. Your work with us over the years on the sustainability agenda is helping us brew a better future.”

Sean O'Neill, Chief Corporate Relations Officer, Global Corporate Relations, Heineken, April 2011

2010

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

Participant feedback, February 2010

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)

“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