Mark Esposito is Professor of economics and public policy with appointments at Hult Int’l Business School, where he directs the Futures Impact Lab as well as Harvard University, since 2011.
At Harvard, he serves as social scientist with affiliations at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for International Development; Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the Davis Center for Eurasian Studies. He is a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He teaches a popular course on Artificial Intelligence for the Division of Continuing Education and runs a seminar on AI and International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School's CID. He has been affiliate faculty of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Prof. Michael E. Porter for over a decade. He served as Founding Fellow of the Circular Economy Research Center at the Judge Business School, at the University of Cambridge, where he retains a Senior Associate role.
He advises governments in the GCC and Eurasia regions and is a global expert of the World Economic Forum, working across the Global AI Alliance and the Converging Technology group. An active public policy academic practitioner, he has been working as a Professorial Fellow at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government as well as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He is currently the Chair of the Governance Group and Senior Fellow at the DC thinktank, The Digital Economist.
He co-founded the Machine Learning research firm, Nexus FrontierTech and the EdTech venture, The Circular Economy Alliance. He has equally co-founded The Chart ThinkTank and The AI Native Foundation. Dr. Esposito has written or co-written over 150 publications, both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed, and 13 books, two of which are Amazon bestsellers: "Understanding how the Future Unfolds" (2017) and "The AI Republic" (2019). His most recent books include "The Emerging Economies under the Dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (Cambridge University Press, 2022), "The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Global Smarter World" (MIT University Press, 2023), and "Digitizing the Emerging Economies" (Cambridge University Press, 2024). His forthcoming books are "Tectonic Shifts: How Technology is Remaking Global Power Dynamics" (Penguin Random House, 2025) and "Becoming AI Native: A Playbook for Businesses" (Routledge, end of 2025). He has a doctorate from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and he lives across Boston, Geneva and Dubai.
