Biography
Mark Esposito is internationally recognized as a top global thought leader on issues related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the changes and opportunities that technology will bring to a variety of industries. He is co-founder and chief learning officer of Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up company. He was included in 2016 on the Thinkers50 radar as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world. He is a senior advisor to the Strategy& Ideation Center at PwC in Dubai and a Distinguished Fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Financial Literacy of the Future. In 2022, he was appointed advisor to the Berkeley SkyDeck incubator. He is a global expert for the World Economic Forum and a consultant to national governments. He is currently an advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office of the United Arab Emirates. In his academic career, Mark has held academic positions at some of the world’s leading institutions, such as Hult International Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Arizona State University Thunderbird and IE Business School. He was co-leader of the Council of Institutes in the Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) program at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, under the guidance of Professor Michael E.
He is a nonresident Fellow at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai as well as Research Associate for the University College London, Blockchain Technologies. He serves as Senior Advisor at Cambrian Futures a global advisory deep tech thinktank. In 2021 he was appointed as Policy Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL. In 2021, he co-founded the Circular Economy Alliance where he serves as Chairman of the Strategic Foresight Board. He has authored/co-authored over 150 publications peer and non peer reviewed, 11 books, among which 2 Amazon bestsellers: Understanding how the Future Unfolds (2017) and The AI Republic (2019). His next books are: “The Emerging Economies under the Dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution” with Dr. Amit Kapoor, to be published by Cambridge University Press in September 2022 and “The Great Remobilization: Designing A Smarter World” with Dr. Olaf Groth and Dr. Terence Tse, to be published in early 2023 by MIT University Press. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Business and Economics from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, one of France’s most prestigious Grande Ecole. He is fluent in 6 languages and in his non academic life, he holds the rank of Master Instructor, Black Belt IV Dan, at the International Budo Institute in Canada