Dr. Mark Esposito is professor of economics and public policy with appointments at Hult International Business School, where he directs the Futures Impact Lab as well as Harvard University, since 2011. 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 and the Davis Center for Eurasian Studies. He is a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. 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 Professorial Fellow at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government as well as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
Our research on megatrends has shown that more and more people are living in cities. For instance, roughly half of China’s population lives in cities and the government plans to push that...
Entrepreneurship is vital to growing markets. And across most of Europe, entrepreneurship is lacking because of poor macro economic conditions, which push investment away from the Old Con...
At the time of the 1929 collapse, we could not necessarily talk about a global economy in the modern sense of the term, but we could definitely talk about the first global crisis, of a ki...
The BRICS club (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which used to be known for its tremendous growth potential, is today in the midst of severe economic and political woes. Ap...
Fast expanding markets (FEM) are rapidly growing economic opportunities that fly under the radar of macroeconomic analysis. We regard them as an exciting phenomenon because they are new m...
The world’s economies apparently change at random, reacting unforeseeably. However, certain large-scale processes can be understood and predicted as inter-related, evolving mechanisms dri...
“After the financial and economic crisis, we live in a world in which people have no choice but to start (belatedly) exercising financial discipline. Such discipline has taken many forms,...
If the mass media is to be believed, Africa is hardly a continent brimming with opportunities for business. But for some time international business commentators have been positioning the...
