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Emily Stanger Sfeile

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Founder & Principal at EmBold Partners
📍 Ghana

Emily Stanger Sfeile is the Founder and Principal of EmBold Partners, specializing in helping technology companies scale in emerging markets. A graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, she has over 20 years of experience, including extensive leadership roles at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where she advised governments across Africa and Asia.

Emily has spent a significant portion of her career living and working on the ground in countries like Sierra Leone and Ghana. She is passionate about personal growth and embracing multiple versions of oneself, both professionally and personally, to live a life as bold as her work.

For nine years while living in Sierra Leone, the sound of a generator powering her lights, laptop, and fridge was the sound of normal life for her.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Founder & Principal
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Ghana
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Tech in Emerging Markets
Her entire career and current company, EmBold Partners, focuses on helping tech companies overcome challenges and scale successfully in markets across Africa and Asia.
AI in Africa
Based in Accra, she has written about the specific failures of Western AI models in African contexts and believes the problems are fixable with the right approach.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Founder & Principal
EmBold Partners
10-2022 - 12-2025
Executive Director, Partnerships and Initiatives
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
3-2021 - 6-2023
Director, Global Health Security Consortium
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
9-2021 - 10-2022
Deputy Global Director, Tech for Development
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
11-2017 - 9-2021
Country Director
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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Education
2006 - 2008
MPAID
Harvard Kennedy School
2001 - 2005
BA
Boston College
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