Full Name
Dr Mark Esposito
Speaker Bio
Mark Esposito is a public policy scholar and social scientist affiliated with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society; the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He leads policy clinics on the governance of technology worldwide. He is a Professor at Hult Int'l Business School and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He has co-founded several AI ventures, including Nexus FrontierTech, the AI Native Foundation, and The Chart ThinkTank, and serves as Chief Economist at micro1, a Silicon Valley–based AI lab.
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.
He has been working as a Resident Fellow as well as Professor of public policy at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, where he authored several policy briefs and appointed Research Fellow at the New School in NYC, focusing on AI and Cooperatives.
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 "Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier" (Routledge, 2026); "Tectonic Shifts: How Technology is Remaking Global Power Dynamics" (Penguin Random House, 2026) , Global Visions,(Bloomsbury, 2026) and Who Rules the Internet? Polycentric Governance and the Political Economy of the Digital Commons (Routledge, 2027).
He has a doctorate from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and he lives across Boston, Geneva and Dubai.
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.
He has been working as a Resident Fellow as well as Professor of public policy at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, where he authored several policy briefs and appointed Research Fellow at the New School in NYC, focusing on AI and Cooperatives.
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 "Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier" (Routledge, 2026); "Tectonic Shifts: How Technology is Remaking Global Power Dynamics" (Penguin Random House, 2026) , Global Visions,(Bloomsbury, 2026) and Who Rules the Internet? Polycentric Governance and the Political Economy of the Digital Commons (Routledge, 2027).
He has a doctorate from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and he lives across Boston, Geneva and Dubai.
