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Teal Insights is a small team of researchers and analysts who specialize in sovereign debt, climate finance, and emerging-market analysis. We work closely with experts in adjacent fields and with partner organizations including NatureFinance, Systemiq, and LSE.

Teal Emery

Founder of Teal Insights. Sovereign-debt and climate-finance researcher. Previously an emerging-markets investment research analyst at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, a consultant to the World Bank, and a fellow at the Energy for Growth Hub. Master's from Columbia SIPA. Recent work includes Greener on the Other Side (with Yunnan Chen, ODI, 2025) and Solar Can't Scale in the Dark (Energy for Growth Hub, 2023). He has been a guest on the China in Africa Podcast and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.

Reuben Opondo

Data scientist. Works on Chinese overseas lending data and the firm's data visualization through the SovTech tooling.