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Dr. Mark Esposito is Professor of Tech Policy at Northeastern University and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He is Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and 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 École des Ponts Paris Tech and he lives across Boston, Geneva and Dubai.

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E-International Relations

AI as Statecraft

How Asia Is Rewriting the Rules of Technology Power

Why are different political economies converging on different AI adoption strategies?

Jun 23, 2026
The Diplomat

Asia Is Sprinting on AI. Europe Is Still Tying Its Laces.

China, South Korea, Japan, India, and Singapore are all setting ambitious AI goals while the EU falls farther behind.

Faculty Associate Mark Esposito and Bruno Sergi highlight the differences between Asian and European approaches to AI.

Jun 18, 2026
LSE Business Review

Which market will dominate the semiconductor industry in the next decade?

Bruno Sergi and Faculty Associate Mark Esposito argue that the semiconductor industry will be dominated in the 2030s by whoever trains the most engineers, builds the most…

May 29, 2026
The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy

When Guardrails Become the Stakes

AI Governance and the Beijing Summit

The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing realized the leaders' mutual recognition of the limits we must impose on AI.

May 28, 2026
EU Reporter

Europe’s New War on Corruption

Can AI Succeed Where Politicians Failed?

Faculty Associate Mark Esposito and Bruno S. Sergi have a new analysis on AI, politics, and corruption which argues that Europe has become "the world's largest live experiment" in…

May 14, 2026
World Economic Forum

Intelligent Industrial Operations Outlook 2026

Mark Esposito is among the coauthors of WEF's Intelligent Industrial Operations Outlook.

Apr 16, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Technology Restrictions Have Become a Central Instrument of Economic Statecraft

Faculty Associate Mark Esposito and Bruno S. Sergi chronicle the shifting legislative landscape about technology.

Apr 13, 2026
World Economic Forum

AI, energy and geopolitics

Leadership's triple transition challenge

"To deliver on the promises of AI, no leader from the public or private sector can afford to ignore the energy system or international politics."

Mar 18, 2026
arXiv

No Last Mile

A Theory of the Human Data Market

Mark Esposito and coauthors model a structured human-data sector as a distinct input into production that accumulates a reusable AI capability stock. The authors, too, provide an…

Mar 1, 2026
Stanford Social Innovation Review

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI

Trebor Scholz and Mark Esposito provide guidance for building community-owned alternatives to extractive AI systems.

Feb 5, 2026
Navigating AI in Business

Mitigating the Risks of Generative AI in Government Through Algorithmic Governance

Faculty Associate Mark Esposito and coauthors reconceptualize algorithmic governance.

Jan 2, 2026
World Economic Forum

How AI-powered recruitment defies expectations about inclusion and transparency

Mark Esposito and coauthor Ava Fitoussy caution that, despite the potential for increased efficiency amid record numbers of job applicants, AI-powered recruitment makes the need…

Sep 22, 2025
World Economic Forum

AI geopolitics and data centres in the age of technological rivalry

Mark Esposito focuses on the data center as a new "battleground" as countries fear that cross-national data processing and storage could put their citizens' digital and economic…

Jul 24, 2025
Frontiers in Blockchain

Decentralizing governance: exploring the dynamics and challenges of digital commons and DAOs

Faculty Associate Mark Esposito, with co-authors Terence Tse and Danny Goh, explores how Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and blockchain-based governance models can…

May 15, 2025
Tech Policy Press

The Future is Coded

How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Decision Theaters

The blending of generative AI with strategic foresight practices means that algorithms can predict trends with uncanny accuracy, writes Mark Esposito.

Apr 22, 2025
Cambridge University Press

Digitalization in Emerging Economies

In a new book for Cambridge's Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets series, Mark Esposito and coauthors explore the potential for using emerging technologies for inclusive…

Mar 20, 2025
World Economic Forum

The digital commons: how to harness blockchain for better governance

"The evolution of digital commons represents more than just a technological shift; it embodies a fundamental reimagining of how we create, share, and govern our collective…

Feb 17, 2025
World Economic Forum

The digital commons: how to harness blockchain for better governance

Mark Esposito and coauthor Eduardo Araral explore how blockchain technology can enhance the governance of digital commons by providing transparent, secure, and decentralized…

Feb 7, 2025
The Atlantic

Around the Globe, Governments Lean into AI

Mark Esposito examines how governments around the world are beginning to deploy AI.

Dec 8, 2024
World Economic Forum

Governance in the Age of Generative AI

A 360° Approach for Resilient Policy and Regulation

Urs Gasser and Mark Esposito contributed to a white paper giving policymakers and regulators implementable strategies for AI governance.

Oct 8, 2024