# Mark Lutter **Mark Lutter** is the founder of the [[Charter Cities Institute]], the nonprofit he started in 2017 to promote the [[Charter City]]. He has argued that charter cities are a kind of special economic zone that can work where Paul Romer's original version failed, because they do not need a foreign government as guarantor. The institute describes him as chief executive of Braavos Cities, a charter-city developer, and as a leading organizer of [[Zuzalu]]. He has also written in support of [[Freedom Cities]] as part of the [[Frontier Foundation]]. ## Why he's on the map Lutter connects three parts of the movement that are usually described separately: the development-economics think tank, the crypto pop-up circuit and the push for deregulated cities on U.S. federal land. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## See Also - [[Charter Cities Institute]] - [[Frontier Foundation]] - [[Zuzalu]]