[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-mark-lutter":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Dr Mark Lutter is the founder and CEO of Braavos Cities, a charter-city development company, and the founder and chairman of the Charter Cities Institute, a non-profit building the ecosystem for charter cities. He holds a PhD in economics from George Mason University, where his research focused on charter cities.","Previously he was lead economist for NeWAY Capital, an asset-management firm making early-stage investments in charter cities. His writing has appeared in outlets including the Chicago Tribune, City Journal, the New Yorker and Cato Unbound.","The Charter Cities Institute is the field’s main research and convening body, publishing the governance handbooks and legal analyses that new projects work from, and running the New Cities Summit, which has gathered developers, financiers and government officials in Kigali, Nairobi and Johannesburg.","Braavos Cities is the other half of the answer, an attempt to do it rather than study it, with projects explored in the Caribbean and East Africa. His reason for the split is that a think tank can make the case while a developer has to make the numbers work, and the field needs both before anyone takes it seriously.",1788062488602]