[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-thibault-serlet":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Thibault Serlet is Co-Founder and Chief Researcher at Adrianople Group, a research and advisory firm focused on Special Economic Zones. He previously founded and led the Startup Societies Foundation, a think tank studying SEZs.","He founded that organisation in 2015 as a non-profit studying and promoting Special Economic Zones and new city projects, and he sits on the board of advisers of the Center for Innovative Governance Research.","He is the architect of Open Zone Map, published in 2021 as the first attempt to catalogue every Special Economic Zone on earth in a single dataset, and still the largest such collection. Before it there was no common reference for how many zones exist, where they are or what rules they run on, which made the field easy to argue about and hard to measure. Consultancies, development organisations and researchers now use the data.","His own research covers the unglamorous mechanics: how tax incentives are structured, what happens to wages and worker training inside zones, how construction is tendered in new city projects, and why master-planned communities so often fail to turn into cities. He has published case studies on zones from Indonesia to South Africa, advises Pronomos Capital, the venture fund that invests in new city projects, and hosts a podcast on geoeconomics.",1788062493030]