Mark is a top global thought leader in matters relating to The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the changes and opportunities that technology will bring to a variety of industries. He is Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale up firm, and was inducted in the radar of Thinkers50 as one of the thirty most prominent rising business thinkers in the world. Mark is a global expert of the World Economic Forum and advisor to national governments.
Dr. Mark Esposito is a professor of economics and public policy with appointments at Hult International Business School and Harvard University. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. 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, and the Davis Center for Eurasian Studies. He is also an incoming faculty affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.
Previously, he has been an affiliate faculty member of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, and 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 and holds senior research roles at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government. He is currently the Chair of the Governance Group and Senior Fellow at the DC think tank, The Digital Economist.
He co-founded the Machine Learning research firm, Nexus FrontierTech and the EdTech venture, The Circular Economy Alliance. Additionally, he co-founded The Chart ThinkTank and The AI Native Foundation.
He has been ranked by Thinkers50 in 2016 as one of the 30 rising business thinkers in the world and was shortlisted for the Breakthrough Award in 2019 and for the Strategy Award in 2023.
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 and The AI Republic. His most recent books include The Emerging Economies under the Dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Global Smarter World, and Digitizing the Emerging Economies. His forthcoming books are Tectonic Shifts: How Technology is Remaking Global Power Dynamics and Becoming AI Native: A Playbook for Businesses. He is a regular contributor to Project Syndicate, World Economic Forum Blo California Management Review and Harvard Business Review.