[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":8},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-jidy-chitta":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7],"Jidy Chitta joined the Charter Cities Institute in 2023 as an Associate in the Special Projects division. His primary role at CCI is developing new city projects in Zanzibar, where he currently lives. Previously, Jidy served as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Braavos Cities, a charter-city search fund that explored projects in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Before entering the charter-city space, he worked as a venture-capital and private-equity analyst at SageLink Capital and Kickstart Seed Fund. He studied economics, business, and international development at Brigham Young University.","Zanzibar has become one of the more active testing grounds in the field, with Fumba Town as the anchor and a series of pop-up gatherings that bring founders and researchers to the island for weeks at a time. Chitta works on the projects that come out of that.","His route in was through finance rather than urbanism, from venture and private-equity analysis to a charter-city search fund, which is a useful background in a field where the binding constraint is usually capital rather than design.",1788062490012]