Mark Esposito
Dr. Mark Esposito is a public policy academic practitioner and social scientist with affiliations at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for International Development (CID), the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Since 2011, Dr. Esposito has been an instructor with Harvard DCE Professional & Executive Development, where he teaches the highly rated program AI Strategy for Business Leaders: From Hype to Impact.
He has been affiliate faculty of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness Initiative at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Professor Michael E. Porter, for over a decade, and served as Founding Fellow of the Circular Economy Research Center at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, where he continues to hold a Senior Associate role.
Dr. Esposito advises governments across the GCC and Eurasia regions and serves as a global expert of the World Economic Forum, working with the Global AI Alliance and the Fostering the Converging Technologies group. He has served as a Resident Fellow and Professor of Public Policy at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, and Senior Advisor for the Innovation Center for Strategy&, part of PwC, in the Middle East. He is also a Fellow at The New School in New York City, focusing on AI and cooperative models of innovation.
He is the co-founder of several ventures at the intersection of AI, education, and strategy, including Nexus FrontierTech, The Circular Economy Alliance, The Chart ThinkTank, and The AI Native Foundation.
Dr. Esposito has written or co-written over 150 publications and 14 books, two of which are Amazon bestsellers: Understanding How the Future Unfolds (2017) and The AI Republic (2019). His more recent works 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 Press, 2023), and Digitizing the Emerging Economies (Cambridge University Press, 2024). His forthcoming titles include: Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier (Routledge, 2026), Tectonic Shifts: How Technology is Remaking Global Power Dynamics (Penguin Random House, 2026), and Global Visions (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Dr. Esposito holds a doctorate from École des Ponts ParisTech, and divides his time between Boston, Geneva, and Dubai.
