[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":10},["ShallowReactive",2],{"book-author-bio-free-private-cities":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8,9],"Dr. Titus Gebel is the inventor of the Free Private Cities concept and CEO of Tipolis. He is a serial entrepreneur with a doctorate in law who has founded a number of companies, including the multinational energy and resources group Deutsche Rohstoff AG. In 2015, Titus resigned as CEO of Deutsche Rohstoff to devote himself entirely to his new project: Free Private Cities.","Titus wants to create an entirely new product in the “market of living together” which aims to fast-track economic and societal progress. At Tipolis, he is focused on creating and developing autonomous cities by partnering commercially with governments and special economic zones around the world.","The concept has a book behind it. Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete for You sets the proposition out in full: a private operator supplies law, security and infrastructure, residents pay a fixed contractual fee instead of taxes, disputes go to independent arbitration, and the terms cannot be altered against a resident without their agreement. It is the founding text of the movement in the German-speaking world and has been translated widely since.","He came to it late and from business. He practised law briefly, moved through biotechnology and venture capital, and in 2006 co-founded Deutsche Rohstoff AG with a partner, building it into a Frankfurt-listed mining and energy group with production in Australia and the United States before stepping away to work on cities full time.","He founded the Free Cities Foundation as the non-profit half of the same project, on the reasoning that the idea needed a home that was not a company. In 2025 he received the Roland Baader Award. He read law at Heidelberg and holds a doctorate in international law.",1788062497016]