Clinical Professor of Global Shifts and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Thunderbird School of Global ManagementAlgorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Global Business, Machine Learning, Technological Entrepreneurship, Technology, technology acceleration, Technology Transfer and Commercialization
Dr. Mark Esposito is recognized internationally as a top global thought leader in matters relating to The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the changes and opportunities that technology will bring to industry. Mark has held numerous senior positions at prestigious Institutes. He has been a member of the teaching faculty at Harvard University鈥檚 Division of Continuing Education where he has taught Economic Strategy and Competitiveness. He also has served as a Co-Leader at the Institutes Council for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at Harvard Business School. Besides being a Professor at Thunderbird/ASU, Mark has been a Professor of Business & Economics at Hult International Business School, globally. He is an appointed Research Fellow in the Circular Economy Center, at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School. He is also a Fellow for the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai. Mark is the Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer of Nexus Frontier Tech, an AI Studio, dedicated to the productions of AI solutions. He is a prolific author and his articles can be found on ResearchGate and his books on Amazon. Mark serves as a global expert for the World Economic Forum. He is the co-author of the best seller Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using DRIVE to Harness the Power of Today's Megatrends. The framework contained therein was nominated for the CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award by Thinkers50, the most prestigious award in business thought leadership. His latest book, The AI Republic (2019) explores the nexus between humans and intelligent automation under the dome of the 4IR. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Business and Economics from the International School of Management in Paris/ New York and an Executive Doctorate in Business Administration from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in Paris. Areas of Expertise: Fourth Industrial Revolution Megatrends Artificial Intelligence/Digital Leading change Competitiveness Economic Strategy Growth and Competitive Strategy Languages of Instruction: English French German Italian Spanish Education Executive Doctorate of Business Administration, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech PhD in Business and Economics, International School of Management, Paris/New York B.A and M.A in Social Sciences, University of Turin, Italy
Professor and Shirley Pap茅 Chair in Emerging Media Director, Journalism Program
University of OregonAlgorithms, Big Data, Journalism, Local News, Media, News, Newspapers, Political News, Social Media, Trump
Seth Lewis is an internationally recognized expert on news and technology, with more than 10,000 citations to a body of work that includes nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters. He recently co-authored the book, 鈥淣ews After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture,鈥 which was published by Oxford University Press. His research, which broadly addresses the social implications of emerging technologies, focuses on the digital transformation of journalism 鈥 from how news is made (news production) to how people make sense of it in their everyday lives (news consumption). In addition to being the founding holder of the Shirley Pap茅 Chair in Emerging Media in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, Lewis is a fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, an affiliate fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an affiliated faculty member of the University of Oregon's Agora Journalism Center and Center for Science Communication Research, and a recent visiting fellow at the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is a two-time winner of the International Communication Association鈥檚 award for Outstanding Article of the Year in Journalism Studies 鈥 in 2016 for the article 鈥淎ctors, Actants, Audiences, and Activities in Cross-Media News Work,鈥 and in 2013 for 鈥淭he Tension Between Professional Control and Open Participation: Journalism and its Boundaries,鈥 as well as an honorable mention distinction in 2014 for 鈥淥pen Source and Journalism: Toward New Frameworks for Imagining News Innovation.鈥 During the past decade, Lewis has been a leader in studying innovations in digital journalism, both in examining developments in journalistic practice as well as in introducing new conceptual frameworks for making sense of change. In 2009, he co-organized one of the first major studies of journalists鈥 use of social media, in an article that has become one of the most-cited papers in the field (Lasorsa, Lewis, & Holton, 2012). Since that time, Lewis鈥 research has examined developments in digital audience analytics/metrics, open innovation processes, and computer programming and software development, as well as the role and influence of nonprofit foundations and other actors in shaping news innovation (see Google Scholar for a complete list of papers).