[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-fred-roeder":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Fred Roeder is a health economist and the Managing Director of the Consumer Choice Center, a consumer-advocacy group promoting pro-growth, pro-innovation policy, or, as he puts it, abundance for consumers. A Dubai resident and Free Cities Foundation ambassador, he argues for light-touch regulation that leaves room for businesses to innovate and consumers to choose.","A health economist trained in Germany, he has worked on healthcare reform in Europe and North America, and started the Consumer Choice Center in 2014 after organising a small protest in Berlin about consumer choice with two friends. It now campaigns on trade, technology, transport, nicotine policy and lifestyle regulation across several continents.","His argument is that regulation written to protect consumers usually ends up protecting incumbents, because the compliance cost is trivial for a large company and prohibitive for a new one, and that consumers are better served by more options than by fewer approved ones.","He has travelled to around a hundred countries and is a Free Cities Ambassador in Dubai, where the same question appears in its sharpest form: what a jurisdiction has to offer in order to attract people who could live anywhere.",1788062495693]