Leading the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

Mark Esposito is Professor of economics and public policy with appointments at Hult International Business School, where he directs the Futures Impact Lab, and is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he serves as social scientist with affiliations at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for International Development (CID), the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), and the Davis Center for Eurasian Studies. He teaches a course on artificial intelligence (AI) for the Division of Continuing Education and runs a seminar on AI and international development at the CID. He has been affiliate faculty of the microeconomics of competitiveness at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Professor Michael E. Porter for over a decade. 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 Gulf Cooperation Council 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 Professorial Fellow at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government as well as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He co-founded the machine learning research firm, Nexus FrontierTech and the educational technology venture, The Circular Economy Alliance. He has equally co-founded The Chart ThinkTank and The AI Native Foundation. Esposito has written or co-written over 150 publications, both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed, and 13 books. He has two forthcoming books in 2025. He earned a doctorate from École des Ponts ParisTech.