At every point in the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, we were privileged to meet with key leaders, either elected to high office or who earned senior decision-making roles. It was comforting, at first, to realize the extraordinary level of competence they had acquired while tackling issues as complex and fraught as Brexit, and as massive as combating climate change. Particularly the rising generation of leaders are taking advantage of the most modern thinking about evidence-based policymaking, good governance, and complex systems.
But this is also what worries me: that precisely because of this rigorous training and the complex demands of their institutions, …read more