[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":10},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-vera-kichanova":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8,9],"Dr Vera Kichanova is an urban economist exploring the future of private governance. Besides the Free Cities Foundation, she works at Zaha Hadid Architects as urban policy advisor. Vera’s career has spanned roles including elected Municipal Councillor in Moscow, Editor-in-Chief with Atlas Network in Kyiv, and President of the Oxford Hayek Society.","That council seat came at twenty, which made her one of the youngest elected officials in Russia and the first elected libertarian in the country. The Washington Post called her the new face of Russia’s opposition, her story appears in the book Generation Putin, and she received the National Endowment for Democracy’s Democracy Award in 2013.","She had arrived there from journalism, writing for her local paper at fourteen and later for Novaya Gazeta and Slon, and she left Russia as the room for both occupations closed.","She spent more than seven years at Zaha Hadid Architects advising city planners on municipal governance, which is where the two halves of her work meet. Her doctoral research is on private urban development: charter cities in emerging economies and startup jurisdictions in neutral waters, examined as an economist rather than as an advocate. She is a Research Fellow at King’s College London and writes for The Telegraph, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Spiegel and CapX.","She is a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow at the Mercatus Center (US), a contributor to the Adam Smith Institute (UK) and a Mont Pèlerin Society member. Vera holds a PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Journalism from Moscow State University.",1788062486580]