Gerd Leonhard
Futurist & Keynote Speaker, Author, Future Strategist and CEO, the Futures Agency
Mark Esposito
Professor of Technology Policy, Northeastern University | Harvard Social Scientist | Chief Economist, micro1 | WEF Global AI Alliance | Thinkers50 Top 30 Business Thinker
Mark Esposito operates at the intersection where AI theory meets economic reality — as a Harvard-affiliated social scientist, Professor of Technology Policy at Northeastern, and Chief Economist at Silicon Valley AI lab micro1. A Thinkers50 top-30 thinker and WEF Global AI Alliance member, he has authored 14 books published by MIT Press, Cambridge, and Penguin Random House. His keynotes give leaders the frameworks to navigate AI disruption, geopolitical shifts, and sustainable transformation with strategic clarity.
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Mark Esposito biography
Dr. Mark Esposito is one of the world’s most authoritative voices at the intersection of artificial intelligence, economics, and strategic foresight — a true polymath whose work spans elite academia, entrepreneurial AI ventures, government advisory, and the World Economic Forum. Fluent in six languages and equally at home in boardrooms and lecture halls from Boston to Dubai, he is the rare thinker who can turn the complexity of global megatrends into a clear, actionable leadership agenda.
An AI speaker with unmatched institutional breadth, Esposito is Professor of Strategy and Technology Policy at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business — where he also serves as Faculty Fellow at the Center for Emerging Markets and Affiliate Scientist at the Global Resilience Institute. He holds multiple affiliations at Harvard University spanning the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He is Adjunct Professor of Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge, where he co-founded the inaugural Circular Economy Research Center at Cambridge Judge Business School.
In the private sector, Esposito serves as Chief Economist at micro1, a Silicon Valley AI lab developing human intelligence platforms for the training of frontier AI models — giving him frontline insight into how cutting-edge AI is actually being built and deployed. He is also co-founder of Nexus FrontierTech, a pioneering machine learning research firm; the AI Native Foundation; and The Chart ThinkTank. He serves as a Senior Advisor at Strategy& (PwC) and has advised government agencies across the Gulf Cooperation Council and Eurasia.
A Prolific Author Shaping the AI and Economics Agenda
Ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s 30 most prominent business thinkers and a Global Expert and Agenda Contributor at the World Economic Forum — where he is a member of the Global AI Alliance and the Fostering Converging Technologies group — Esposito has authored or co-authored over 150 publications and 14 books. His award-winning The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future (MIT Press, 2023) introduced the FLP-IT framework for navigating global complexity. His most recent titles include Digitalization in Emerging Economies (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier (Chapman & Hall, 2026), with Tectonic Shifts: How Technology Is Remaking Global Power Dynamics (Penguin Random House) forthcoming. He holds a doctorate from the École des Ponts ParisTech and lives across Boston, Geneva, and Dubai.
As a speaker, Mark Esposito is a rare combination: the intellectual depth of a Harvard social scientist, the practitioner credibility of a Silicon Valley AI economist, and the stage presence of a world-class communicator who has addressed audiences from Davos to the Global Peter Drucker Forum. His keynotes — built around proprietary frameworks including DRIVE, FLP-IT, and the More 3P AI Transformation Framework — give senior leaders and policymakers the strategic clarity to navigate AI disruption, geopolitical shifts, and the transition to sustainable economic models. He does not just describe the future: he gives audiences the tools to shape it.
Mark Esposito Speaking Videos
Mark Esposito - Understanding the Future as it Unfolds: The Power of Megatrends
Mark Esposito - The Circular Economy: Society's last chance?
Mark Esposito Keynote Topics
Most organizations are experimenting with AI. Far fewer have embedded it at the core of how they design strategy, govern decisions, and deliver value. In this keynote — drawn from his book Becoming AI Native — Mark Esposito presents a critical shift in perspective: from treating AI as an additional tool to architecting truly AI-native organizations. He explores what changes when AI is integrated into the fabric of governance, project design, and leadership thinking, and delivers a practical framework for making that transition without sacrificing human judgment, trust, or competitive resilience. This is the keynote for leaders who are done experimenting and ready to transform.
The world is not just changing — it is being remobilized. New economic epicenters are emerging. Geopolitical power is shifting. Technology is redrawing competitive maps that took decades to establish. Drawing from his award-winning MIT Press book and the FLP-IT framework — Forces, Logic, Phenomena, Impact, Triage — Esposito gives executive audiences a structured approach to mapping the forces reshaping their industries, anticipating second- and third-order consequences, and designing strategies for a world where uncertainty is the only constant. This is strategic foresight at its most rigorous and its most actionable.
Adoption is accelerating. Impact is lagging. In this high-impact keynote, Esposito — speaking from his dual vantage point as a Harvard economist and Chief Economist at AI unicorn micro1 — delivers a grounded, evidence-based assessment of where AI truly is, where it is going, and what leaders must do now to avoid expensive mistakes. He introduces the More 3P AI Transformation Framework — Precision, Personalization, and Predictive capability — and addresses the critical question most AI keynotes avoid: if AI is the most important conversation in business today, why haven't we seen more meaningful conversion rates? The answer, and the strategy it demands, form the heart of this session.
The linear "take, make, dispose" model of production is economically and ecologically obsolete — and the leaders who understand this first will define the next era of competitiveness. As one of the world's most cited scholars on the circular economy and co-founder of Cambridge's inaugural Circular Economy Research Center, Esposito makes the business case for regenerative growth with clarity and urgency. He shows how technology — particularly AI and advanced analytics — can accelerate the transition to sustainable business models, and how companies that embed sustainability into their core economic logic gain structural advantages in talent, capital markets, and long-term resilience.
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FAQs on Booking Mark Esposito
Why Mark Esposito?
Booking Mark Esposito means bringing one of the most credentialed and intellectually versatile minds in global strategy and AI to your event. He is simultaneously a Professor of Technology Policy at Northeastern University, a Harvard-affiliated social scientist, a WEF Global Expert and member of the Global AI Alliance, Chief Economist at a Silicon Valley AI unicorn, and the author of 14 books published by MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, Penguin Random House, and Chapman & Hall. Ranked by Thinkers50 among the world's top 30 business thinkers, he does not deliver generic trend talks — he gives executive and government audiences the proprietary frameworks and analytical rigor they need to make confident decisions in a world reshaped by AI, geopolitical shifts, and sustainability imperatives. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check his availability for your event.
What is Mark Esposito's DRIVE framework?
The DRIVE framework is Mark Esposito's proprietary analytical model for harnessing the power of today's megatrends. DRIVE helps leaders map the forces reshaping industries and economies, illuminate strategic blind spots that traditional analysis misses, and identify exceptional growth and transformation opportunities before competitors do. Built on Esposito's decades of research at Harvard, Cambridge, and the World Economic Forum, the framework has been applied by executives, governments, and international organizations across sectors to build more resilient, forward-looking strategies in an era of accelerating disruption.
What are Mark Esposito's most important books?
Esposito has authored or co-authored 14 books across AI, economics, sustainability, and global strategy. His most celebrated is The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future (MIT Press, 2023), which won awards for its introduction of the FLP-IT leadership framework. His Amazon bestsellers include The AI Republic: Building the Nexus Between Humans and Intelligent Automation (2019) and Understanding How the Future Unfolds (2017). Recent titles include Digitalization in Emerging Economies (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier (Chapman & Hall, 2026), with Tectonic Shifts: How Technology Is Remaking Global Power Dynamics (Penguin Random House) forthcoming.
What topics does keynote speaker Mark Esposito cover?
Mark Esposito speaks on artificial intelligence strategy and governance, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its economic implications, becoming AI-native as an organization, the circular economy and sustainable business models, geopolitics and the new global economic order, megatrend navigation for leaders and policymakers, and digital transformation in emerging economies. His keynotes are built around proprietary frameworks and tailored for C-suites, government leaders, international organizations, and senior executive audiences. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to discuss availability and customization for your event.
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