Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2016.
Mark is Professor of Strategy and Technology Policy at Northeastern University, where he also serves as Affiliated Scientist at the Global Resilience Institute and Fellow at the Center for Emerging Markets. He holds concurrent appointments as Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, as well as Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge and Adjunct Professor of Policy at Georgetown University. An active contributor to three World Economic Forum initiatives spanning AI, advanced manufacturing, and converging technologies, he serves as Chief Economist of micro1, a Silicon Valley AI lab, and Senior Advisor to the Innovation Center of Strategy& (PwC) in the Middle East. He holds a doctoral degree from École des Ponts ParisTech in France, the world’s oldest civil engineering school.
Mark has authored or co-authored over 150 publications, both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed, alongside 14 books, two of which became Amazon bestsellers: Understanding How the Future Unfolds (with Terence Tse, Lioncrest Publishing, 2017) and The AI Republic (with Terence Tse and Danny Goh, Lioncrest Publishing, 2019). His recent books include The Emerging Economies under the Dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Global Smarter World (with Olaf Groth and Terence Tse, MIT Press, 2023), and Digitizing the Emerging Economies (with Yusaf Akbar and Francis Xavier Campbell, Cambridge University Press, 2024). Forthcoming titles include Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier (with Terence Tse, Danny Goh, and Paul Lee, Routledge, 2026), Tectonic Shifts: How Technology is Remaking Global Power Dynamics (Penguin Random House, 2026), Global Visions (Bloomsbury, 2026), and Who Rules the Internet? Polycentric Governance and the Political Economy of the Digital Commons (Routledge, 2027). He writes regularly for Project Syndicate, the World Economic Forum, California Management Review, and Harvard Business Review.
“One of the most authoritative and insightful guides to the fourth industrial revolution.”
Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50
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