Turning Economic Intelligence into Strategic Advantage

Solution42 provides independent economic intelligence, sovereign-risk analysis, and strategic advisory for government and business decision-makers

Helping organizations understand the economic forces shaping national security, strategic competition, international finance, and global markets.

Dr. Emily Brearley

Founder & Principal Economist

Dr. Emily Brearley is an economist with 25 years of experience in international development economics, economic policy, public finance, and institutional advisory work. Her background includes senior roles with international financial institutions, emergency markets and complex development initiatives.

As founder of Solution42 and author of Aid Inferno, she brings and independent, evidence-based perspective to economic issues influencing government policy, international investment and commercial decision making

Our latest work…

  • Basic Service Provision

    Government-Led Funding for home-grown, sustainable Education and Health Services

  • AID INFERNO

    Economic analysis on why aid failed and how to fix it

  • THE NEW WASHINGTON CONSENSUS

    Free Trade isn’t Fair Trade: industrial policy for the 21st Century

  • MDB REFORM

    China extracts a sweet deal from a global financial institution just a few blocks from the White House.