Dr. Mark Esposito is Resident Fellow and Professor of Economic Policy at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai. He serves as Professor of Economics and Public Policy with appointments at Hult International Business School and Harvard University. 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 has been affiliate faculty of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Prof. Michael E. Porter 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 and holds an adjunct role at Georgetown University. He co-founded the Machine Learning research firm, Nexus FrontierTech and the EdTech venture: The Circular Economy Alliance. He is equally the co-founder of The AI Native Foundation and The Chart ThinkTank. He has a doctorate from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and he lives across Boston, Geneva and Dubai.

He has authored/co-authored over 150 publications peer and non-peer reviewed, 13 books, among which 2 Amazon bestsellers: Understanding how the Future Unfolds (2017) and The AI Republic (2019). His latest books are: “The Emerging Economies under the Dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution” (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and “The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Global Smarter World”, (MIT University Press, 2023) and “Digitizing the Emerging Economies” ( Cambridge University Press, 2024). He writes for Project Syndicate, World Economic Forum Blog, California Management Review and Harvard Business Review.