GLOBAL RISK MITIGATION & FUTURE READINESS

Meet Mark Esposito, PhD

Dr. Mark Esposito is a Professor of Business and Economics at Hult International Business School. His areas of specialization include economics, strategy, foresights, and management of technology. He is recognized internationally as a global thought leader in matters relating to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the changes and opportunities that technology will bring to a variety of industries.

Mark 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 to the Thinkers50 Radar 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 in Dubai, and a Distinguished Fellow in the UNESCO Chair in Future Literacy of Finance. He is a global expert of the World Economic Forum, an advisor to national governments, and currently serves as Subject Matter Expert for the Prime Minister's Office in the UAE. He equally serves as advisor to Cambrian Futures, a Geotech advisory firm.

In his academic career, Mark has held academic appointments for some of the world’s leading institutions including Harvard University, the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, and IE Business School. Mark currently serves as Affiliate Faculty for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness Program at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Professor Michael Porter. He was the Co-Leader of the Institute Councils at HBS from 2015 to 2019 and continues to serve in the faculty at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education.

He holds a doctoral degree in Business & Economics from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, one of France’s most prestigious Grande Ecole.

Anthony J. Evans, PhD

Anthony J. Evans is a Visiting Fellow of the Futures Lab and an Economics Professor at ESCP Business School. He has been an Affiliate Faculty Member on the Microeconomics of Competitiveness Program at Harvard Business School, and a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at San Jose State University.

His research areas are monetary economics and transitional economics. He specializes in topics related to competitiveness, central banking, and neoliberalism.

Dr. Evans has been published in a range of academic and trade journals and is the author of Economics: A Complete Guide for Business.

Aurélie Jean, PhD

Aurélie Jean is a Visiting Fellow of the Futures Lab, a computational scientist, entrepreneur, and author. She has close to 20 years of experience in computational science applied to a broad range of disciplines.

After 11 years of academic research, Dr. Jean is now running two companies, including a deeptech AI startup focused on the early detection of breast cancer, INFRA. She is the author of several bestseller essays on algorithmic science, a university press book on algorithms, as well as a sci-fi novel.

Dr. Jean is also a columnist on sciences and technology, teaches algorithmic science in executive education, and is a research fellow for The Digital Economist.

(Aurelie asked that we credit her headshot to the photograph Alcibiade Cohen)

Boyd Cohen, PhD

Boyd Cohen is a Visiting Fellow of the Futures Lab. Since obtaining his PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado in 2001, Dr. Cohen has focused on accelerating the path to a low-carbon sustainable economy for the past two decades.

This includes publishing three books: Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Startups for the 99%, The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur, and Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change, along with multiple peer-reviewed articles, and starting a handful of ventures in the smart cities and sustainability arena.

Dr. Cohen’s writings and thought leadership have been published in Fast Company, CoinDesk, and numerous smart cities publications. At the same time, his Smart Cities Wheel has been leveraged by governments around the globe to benchmark, rank, and strategize their path to a net zero future. 

Daphne Halkias, PhD

Daphne Halkias is a Visiting Fellow of the Futures Lab. Daphne is also a distinguished Research Fellow and Professor at the Center for Policy and Competitiveness at École des Ponts ParisTech Business School, a Fellow at the Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School, and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for Social Sciences at Cornell University.

Dr. Halkias is CEO of Executive Coaching Consultants and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, and International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning.

She is a member of the Academy of Management, Business Fights Poverty, and the American Psychological Association and the author of 14 academic books and over 100 peer-reviewed papers.

Josh Entsminger

Josh is a Visiting Fellow of the Futures Impact Lab, supporting research on innovation and technology policy. Josh has a BA from Virginia Tech and an MA from IE School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs. He is pursuing his doctorate at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

He has taught and lectured on innovation policy and systems thinking in the United States and across Europe. His research concerns multiple areas within innovation policy and international affairs, such as the global landscape of high-risk high-reward public funding institutions, competing approaches to national artificial intelligence strategies, and theories of digital public infrastructure.

He was a progress fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and was selected as a 35 under 35 for the Santander-CIDOB policy program.