Mark Esposito, PhD — CEO
Dr. Mark Esposito is Professor of economics and public policy with appointments at Harvard University as well as Hult Int'l Business School. He is 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 Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and he lives across Boston, Geneva and Dubai.
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Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Experience: 20 yrs 8 mos
Career Highlights
- Over 150 publications and 13 books authored.
- Chief Economist at a leading Silicon Valley AI firm.
- Global expert for the World Economic Forum.
Work Experience
micro1
Chief Economist (8 mos)
Human Data Scientist (1 yr 2 mos)
The New School
Visiting Scholar/Research Fellow, The Institute for Cooperative Digital Economy (1 yr)
Harvard University
Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (1 yr 6 mos)
Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Quantitative and Social Science (2 yrs 2 mos)
Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russians and Eurasian Studies (2 yrs 2 mos)
Instructor, Professional and Executive Development, Harvard Division of Continuing Education (15 yrs 2 mos)
Teaching Faculty, Division of Continuing Education (15 yrs 3 mos)
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Faculty Associate (1 yr 6 mos)
World Economic Forum
Member, Fostering Technology Convergence, Center for Fourth Industrial Revolution (1 yr 7 mos)
Member, AI Global Alliance (1 yr 7 mos)
Global Expert (9 yrs 5 mos)
Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Affiliate, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School (2 yrs 2 mos)
The Chart Think Tank
Co-Founder & Chair in Political Economy & Governance (2 yrs 2 mos)
AI Native Foundation
Co-Founder (2 yrs 2 mos)
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Adjunct Professor of Economics & Policy (2 yrs 4 mos)
Hult International Business School
Director, Futures Impact Lab (2 yrs 6 mos)
UNESCO
Policy Fellow (3 yrs 3 mos)
Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG)
Professor of Economic Policy (3 yrs 7 mos)
Non Resident Research Fellow (5 yrs 6 mos)
Strategy&
Senior Advisor to the Ideation Center (3 yrs 11 mos)
Circular Economy Alliance
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Strategic Foresight Board (2 yrs 2 mos)
Arizona State University
Faculty Fellow Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (10 mos)
Clinical Professor, Thunderbird Global School of Management (2 yrs 11 mos)
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Policy Fellow (3 yrs 2 mos)
Prime Minister's Office - UAE
Subject Matter Expert (5 yrs 8 mos)
emlyon business school
Full Professor of Strategy (1 yr 2 mos)
Nexus FrontierTech
Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer (8 yrs 9 mos)
Cambridge Judge Business School
Faculty, Executive MBA (2 yrs)
Research Fellow (4 yrs)
Hult International Business School
Full Professor of Strategy, Economics and Foresights (9 yrs 6 mos)
Adjunct Professor of Economics (3 yrs 11 mos)
Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS
Co-Leader, Institutes Council (4 yrs)
Harvard Business School
Co-Leader Institutes Council, Microeconomics of Competitiveness Program (4 yrs 8 mos)
Affiliate Faculty, Microeconomics of Competitiveness Program (MOC) (13 yrs 11 mos)
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
Senior Associate (13 yrs 6 mos)
IE Business School
Adjunct Professor of Strategy (13 yrs 5 mos)
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Director of the Master in International Business (2 yrs 4 mos)
Senior Professor of Business & Economics & Director of the Lab-Center for Competitiveness (9 yrs 11 mos)
Associate Professor of Business and Economics (7 yrs 3 mos)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Director of the Bachelor of Science & Adjunct Professor (2 yrs 5 mos)
Education
Executive Doctorate of Business Administration at École nationale des ponts et chaussées
Post Doc Specialization at Harvard Business School
Laurea Degree (Dottore Magistrale) Master of Arts at Università degli Studi di Torino
Ph.D at The International School of Management (ISM)