Dag Detter is a Swedish investment advisor, as well as an author and speaker on the topic of public commercial assets.

[1] He is the former President of Stattum and Director at the Swedish Ministry of Industry, leading the restructuring of the government portfolio of public assets during the reforms 1998-2001.

[7] The book argues that better management of public assets would increase global living standards and improve the fabric of democratic institutions.

[8] In 2017 The Brookings Institution Press published The Public Wealth of Cities : How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity.

Detter has also written for the Financial Times,[11] The Wall Street Journal,[12] Project Syndicate,[13] Foreign Affairs,[14] Foreign Policy,[15] International Monetary Fund,[16] The World Bank,[17] Chicago Tribune,[18] Public Finance,[19] and The Globe and Mail,[20] as well as the World Economic Forum.