Matthias Boehning
Managing Director | PIRON Global Development
Matthias K. Boehning is a global development professional with strong focus on non-profits as well as development finance and private sector work in developing countries and emerging economies. Against the background of his previous professional experience working for NGOs, a development think tank and a development finance institution, he founded PIRON Global Development in 2014. PIRON is a development consultancy as well as a project management, fundraising, and communication agency with three business divisions: (1) Business for Development (serving corporate clients in developing country/emerging market operations as well as public institutions in the conceptualization of private-sector driven development strategies), (2) Faith in Development (supporting Non-Profits and UN organizations in conceptualizing and implementing cooperation projects between development organizations and faith-based actors, (3) Social Impact (assisting a variety of great organizations in making the world a better place). Together with his team he publishes the bimonthly "Faith in Development Monitor" and organizes the annual CEO event "Bonn Salon - Christian Development Cooperation". On the not-for-profit side Matthias is the director of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Sustainability Center and the WEA Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Bonn. Matthias is married and has one son.
