Dr Mark Esposito is and Adjunct Professor at IE University and Full Professor of Business and Economics at Hult International Business School, as well as at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education.
He is recognised 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 & Chief Learning Officer at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture. In 2021, he co-founded the Circular Economy Alliance where he serves as Chairman of the Strategic Foresight Board. 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 Senior Advisor to the Ideation Center of Strategy& at PwC.
He is a global expert of the World Economic Forum and advisor to national governments and currently serves as Subject Matter for the Prime Minister Office in the UAE.
In his academic career, Mark has held academic appointments for some of the world’s leading institutions such as Harvard University, University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, and Arizona State University.
He 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 and still served as affiliate faculty to the program.
In his career he has written hundreds of op-eds and professional publications, over 150 articles, several book chapters, over 40 case studies and 13 books, including two bestsellers. His next books are: The Emerging Economies under the Dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Dr Amit Kapoor, published by Cambridge University Press in summer 2022 and The Great Remobilization: Designing A Smarter World with Dr Olaf Groth and Dr Terence Tse, to be published in 2023 by MIT University Press.
He holds a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech.
CORPORATE EXPERIENCE
• Senior Advisor, Strategy&, PwC
• Economic Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office, UAE
• Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer, Nexus FrontierTech, (global)
• Co-Founder and Chairman of Strategic Foresight Board, Circular Economy Alliance, Cyprus
• Global Expert, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
• Senior Advisor, Cambrian Futures
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
• Adjunct Professor of Strategy, IE Business School, 2010 – Present
• Professor of Business and Economics, Hult International Business School, 2012 – Present
• Professor of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education, 2011 – Present
• Clinical Professor of Global Shifts, Arizona State University
• Research Fellow, Judge Business School at University of Cambridge, 2016 – 2020
• Professor of Strategy, EM Lyon, 2019 – 2020
• Associate Professor and Professor, Grenoble Ecole de Management, 2008 – 2018
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
• Post Doctoral Education, Harvard Business School, USA
• Executive Doctorate in Business Administration, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, France
• PhD in Business and Economics, International School of Management, joint program St/ John’s University, France/USA
• B.A & M.A. in Humanities, University of Torino, Italy
