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Teal Insights is a small team of researchers and engineers who specialize in sovereign debt and emerging markets. The team works from the United States, Kenya, and Nigeria.

Teal Emery

Founder of Teal Insights. Previously an emerging markets sovereign research analyst at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), a consultant to the World Bank on sovereign debt, and a research consultant at AidData, where he worked on tracking Chinese overseas lending and building datasets of sovereign loan performance and restructurings. Adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Master's from Columbia SIPA. His work has been featured in or quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Devex, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Reuben Opondo

Sovereign debt analytics, front-end design, and forward-deployed engineering.

Aniekpeno Ifeh

Sovereign debt analytics and front-end design.

Christopher Smith

Back-end engineering and DevOps.

Kweku Ninsin

Back-end engineering and ontology research.