Mark Esposito

Mark Esposito, PhD, is recognized internationally as a top global thought leader in matters relating 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 at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale up venture, dedicated to help business become more efficient and competitive by introducing the latest data management science. He was inducted in 2016 in the radar of Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world. He is a global expert of the World Economic Forum and advisor to national governments. In his academic career, Mark has held academic appointments for some of the world’s leading institutions such as Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management, Hult International Business School and IE Business School.

He has developed and conducted courses in Business, Government & Society & Economic Strategy and Competitiveness for Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education and served as Institutes Council Co-Leader, at the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School under the mentorship of Professor Michael E. Porter.

He equally runs two executive education programs at Harvard Professional Development designed around his books: “Growth Strategies: Identifying Opportunities in Market Trends” and “Artificial Intelligence in Business: Creating Value with Machine Learning”. His third executive program at Harvard will be launched in 2021 on “ Fintech and Blockchain”.

He holds Fellowships with the Social Progress Imperative and with the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils in Washington D.C. 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.

In his career he has written hundreds of op-eds and professional publications, over 150 peer review articles, several book chapters, over 40 case studies and 11 books, including two bestsellers.

Mark is indeed the co-author of the best seller “Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using DRIVE to Harness the Power of Today's Megatrends”. The framework contained therein was nominated for the CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award by Thinkers50, the most prestigious award in business thought leadership. In 2019, Mark's book on AI, "The AI Republic: The Nexus between Humans and Intelligent Automation", became #1 bestseller in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy and received global accolades.

Grounded in both Humanities and Economics, Mark has a B.A. and a M.A. in Human and Social Studies from the University of Turin in Italy, a PhD in Business Strategy and Economics from the International School of Management, on a joint program with St. John’s University in New York City. From 2009 to 2010, Mark has attended Post-Doctoral Education at Harvard Business School. In 2018 he graduated from his second doctoral degree with an Executive DBA at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech; one of France's oldest and most prestigious Grande Ecoles.

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.

Sample research areas include:

• Fast Expanding Markets - Where to Find New Growth? Where is growth, how can we find it, nurture it and scale it? An iterative process of discovery from the grassroots up.
• Uncertain times, uncertain Future; how can we thrive in uncertainty when business as normal is no longer applicable?
• The Circular Economy as response to the increasing pressure on natural resources that will lead to unbearable costs and decreasing prosperity and will push us to reconsider our business model. Shifting the production of goods and services from linear to "circular" represents an opportunity worth trillion of dollars.
• Organizations in the 21st century and their dilemmas; the use of strategic dilemmas as a way to make decisions and an overview on how paradoxes and dilemmas drive today's organizations.
• The sharing economy and the power of swarm intelligence: how is the collaborative economy changing the paradigm of capital and its integration into Society.

EDUCATION

• Executive Doctorate of Business Administration, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech,France
• PhD in Business and Economics, International School of Management, Paris/New York,USA
• BA and MA in Social Sciences, University of Turin,Italy

AWARD

• Thinkers50 Radar : 30 most prominent thinkers on the rise
• CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award by Thinkers50
• Bestseller status on Amazon (# 1 in the UK and #2 in the USA) on his book on Megatrends

EXPERIENCE

• Since 2011: Teaching faculty, Harvard University and Co-Leader Institutes Council, Microeconomics of Competitiveness, Harvard Business School, USA
• Since 2016: Fellow, Circular Economy Center, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
• 2008-2017: Senior Professor of Business and Economics, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
• 2003-2007: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

COURSES TAUGHT

• IMBA: Strategic Management & Macroeconomics
• EMBA: Ecosystem, Innovation & Business Models

Dr. Mark Esposito is recognized internationally as a top global thought leader in matters relating 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 at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture. He was inducted in 2016 in the radar of Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world. He is a global expert of the World Economic Forum and advisor to national governments.

Besides being a Professor at Thunderbird/ASU, Mark has been a Professor of Business & Economics at Hult International Business School, globally. He co-directs the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Globalization 4.0 Initiative at Arizona State University's Thunderbird since its inception. Since 2019, he is has been inducted by MIT Technology Review into the list of the top 100 Global Tech influencers as well as Top 50 most influential thinkers in AI by Thinkers360.

He served as Institutes Council Co-Leader and Affiliate Faculty at the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School under the mentorship of Professor Michael E. Porter until 2019 and he oversaw the management of several affiliated research centers which are actively involved with cluster theory research and practice. During his tenure at the Institute, Mark has overseen several research initiatives from the affiliate centers and curated the first Institutes Council Guide for new inductees, ever produced by the Institute.

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. In 2021 he was appointed as Policy Fellow at the renowned Institute for Innovation and Public Policy at UCL, led by world acclaimed economist, Mariana Mazzucato. He is equally an appointed Senior Fellow at the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils in Washington DC as well as a Fellow of the Social Progress Imperative, always in DC. He sits on the boards of competitiveness national institutes in India, Italy and the Netherlands. In 2021 he was named Faculty Fellow for the Center for Law, Science and Innovation at Sandra O' Connor College of Law, at ASU.

He served from 2016 to 2020 as Fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, where he was a founding member of the Circular Economy Center and he is since 2012 a Senior Associate for the Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership, at the University of Cambridge.

He is involved as Senior Advisor at Cambrian Futures a global advisory deep tech thinktank. Since 2020, he is a Subject Matter Expert for the National Program on Artificial Intelligence as well as Expert on Global Risks for the Centennial Lab at the Prime Minister Office of the UAE. 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.

Research Summary

Dr. Esposito's research focuses on the interlink between policy, business and technology and he researches the impact that the transformation of the 4IR technologies will bring to an array of industries. He writes both professional press and academic pieces on the future, foresights and systems analysis and he has been investigating socio-economic complexity since his time at Michael Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS when he served as Institutes Council Co-Leader. Dr. Esposito is a prolific author with 150 peer and non peer reviewed articles, 11 edited and authored books, several chapters, and over 40 case studies, mainly on clusters and clusters theory. He has participated to 6 reports for the World Economic Forum and he is an active contributor to places like Project Syndicate and Harvard Business Review. His work on the Circular Economy is highly cited and made it to the list of the most cited articles in the field, for his publication on Thunderbird International Business Review as well California Management Review.

His next books, to be published respectively by MIT University Press ( 2022) and Cambridge University Press ( 2022) deal with questions on the Great reset in a post pandemic world as well as the rise of the emerging economies under the dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.