Mark Esposito is Professor of Economic Policy at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government and a public policy scholar 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 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 served as affiliate faculty for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program at Harvard Business School under the mentorship of Prof. Michael E. Porter for over a decade, and he was a 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, contributing to the Global AI Alliance and the Converging Technology group.

Dr. Esposito has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications—both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed—and 14 books, two of which are Amazon bestsellers: Understanding How the Future Unfolds (2017) and The AI Republic (2019). His more 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); and Digitizing the Emerging Economies (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

He holds a doctorate from École des Ponts ParisTech and divides his time between Boston, Geneva, and Dubai.

His forthcoming books include:

1- Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier (Routledge, 2026).

2- Tectonic Shifts: How Technology Is Remaking Global Power Dynamics (Penguin Random House, 2026).

3- Global Visions (Bloomsbury, 2026); and Who Rules the Internet? Polycentric Governance and the Political Economy of the Digital Commons (Routledge, 2027).