Mark Esposito is a globally recognized scholar, educator, and practitioner at the forefront of technology, economics, and public policy. He specializes in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and artificial intelligence, with expertise spanning academia, international organizations, and the private sector.<\/p>\n
Dr. Esposito is Professor of Technology Policy at Northeastern University, where he equally serves as Faculty Fellow at the Center for Emerging Markets, and Affiliate Scientist at the Global Resilience Institute. He has worked for 15 years in the faculty of Harvard University, where he maintains a faculty associate role with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Policy at Georgetown University and a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n
Dr. Esposito is closely connected to policy and innovation initiatives worldwide. He serves as Chief Economist of micro1, a Silicon Valley AI lab, and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Alliance and Fostering Converging Technologies group, and has been a Professorial Fellow at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai since 2017. He has advised government agencies across the Gulf Cooperation Council and Eurasia and, for over a decade, co-led the Institutes Council on Microeconomics of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School under Professor Michael Porter.<\/p>\n
An accomplished entrepreneur, Dr. Esposito co-founded Nexus FrontierTech, an influential machine learning research firm, and the AI Native Foundation. He was one of the Inaugural Research Fellows at the Circular Economy Research Center at Cambridge.<\/p>\n
Recognized by Thinkers50 Radar in 2016 as one of the world’s top 30 business thinkers, Dr. Esposito is a widely published author with over 150 peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications and 14 books. Notable works include the Amazon bestsellers Understanding How the Future Unfolds (2017) and The AI Republic (2019). 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 Press, 2023), Digitalization in Emerging Economies (Cambridge University Press, 2025), and Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier (Routledge, 2026). Forthcoming titles include Tectonic Shifts: How Technology is Remaking Global Power Dynamics (Penguin Random House), and Who Rules the Internet? Polycentric Governance and the Political Economy of the Digital Commons (Routledge). Dr. Esposito holds a doctorate from \u00c9cole des Ponts ParisTech in France, the world’s oldest civil engineering school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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