Mark Esposito is a professor of economics and public policy with appointments at Hult International Business School, the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, and Georgetown University. He is a social scientist with affiliations at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for International Development and Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS). He has been affiliate faculty of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Prof. Michael E. Porter. He advises governments in the GCC and Eurasia regions and is a global expert of the World Economic Forum.