#  Mark Esposito 

Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School

Affiliate Faculty, Center for International Development, HKS

Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

 

 

 



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Mark Esposito is a public policy scholar, strategist, and economist 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 is Professor of Strategy and Technology Policy at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business, where he also serves as Faculty Fellow at the Center for Emerging Markets and Affiliate Scientist at the Global Resilience Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Policy 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 developing human intelligence platforms for frontier AI training.

He was affiliate faculty of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Prof. Michael E. Porter, for over a decade, and served as Founding Fellow of the Circular Economy Research Center at the Judge Business School, 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. He has served as Resident Fellow and Professor of Public Policy at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, where he authored several policy briefs, and as Research Fellow at The New School in New York City, focusing on AI and cooperatives.

Dr. Esposito has written or co-written over 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 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). Forthcoming titles include 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 holds a doctorate from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and is based across Boston, Geneva, and Dubai.



 

 

 





 

 

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