Emily Stanger Sfeile

Interim Executive Director

Emily Stanger Sfeile is the Founder and Principal of Embold Partners and a former Executive Director at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), where she spent over a decade at the intersection of government transformation, technology and global impact. A trusted advisor to four heads of state and dozens of senior ministers, she has built the systems, partnerships, and institutional capabilities that allow governments across five continents to harness technology at scale. Her work at TBI produced 36 active technology initiatives across 20 governments — spanning AI adoption, satellite connectivity, digital skills, and data-driven decision-making — and resulted in six new government-facing technology products. She facilitated high-level convening between global political and technology leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the UN General Assembly, and the G20.

Earlier in her career, Emily served in Liberia for six years, leading a UN and Government of Liberia initiative reaching more than 40,000 women with economic empowerment programs. In Sierra Leone, she helped the government establish its Ebola command center and later served as a McKinsey-embedded advisor to Sierra Leone's President's Delivery Team. She was recognised by Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2013 for her early work with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on women and the economy, and was among the first mentors for Emerging Public Leaders' inaugural cohort in Liberia. Emily holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School and a BA from Boston College, where she graduated summa cum laude as top Economics graduate.