Welcome

I turn complex information and messy data into actionable insights. International finance, sustainability, politics, and policy.

Current Hats:

Teal Insights | Founder & Lead Researcher

AidData | Research Consultant

Energy for Growth Hub | Fellow

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) | Adjunct Lecturer in International Finance

Recent Publications

Greener on the other side?

Mapping China’s overseas co-financing and financial innovation

This paper examines whether China’s overseas lending has truly gone green and maps the networks of…

Yunnan Chen, Teal Emery

Solar Can’t Scale in the Dark

Why lessons about subsidies and transparency from IFC’s Scaling Solar Zambia can reignite progress toward deploying clean energy

This paper argues that IFC’s Scaling Solar program is an ambitious and thoughtfully designed…

TEAL EMERY: A chance to reshuffle the stacked decks of net zero measurements

Current rules greenwash rich countries’ climate record, and SA can do something about it.

I wrote an Op-Ed in South Africa’s premier financial newspaper. The article targets South African…