Dr. Mark Esposito is Professor of Economics and Tech Policy with appointments at Hult Int'l Business School and Georgetown University. He is Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and the Chief Economist of micro1, a Silicon Valley AI firm
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 at Harvard Law School. 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 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, working across the Global AI Alliance and the Converging Technology group. An active public policy academic practitioner, he has been working as a Resident Fellow as well as Professor of Public Policy at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government as well as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He is a Fellow at the New School in NYC, focusing on AI and Cooperatives. 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 and "Charting the Next AI Frontier: Being AI Native" (Routledge, end of 2025); "Tectonic Shifts: How Technology is Remaking Global Power Dynamics" (Penguin Random House, 2026) , Global Visions,(Bloomsbury, 2026) He has a doctorate from École des Ponts Paris Tech and he lives across Boston, Geneva and Dubai.
