Leadership in a Time of COVID-19

Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has been at the top of everyone’s minds. People are taking a closer look at their health – and their governments. Throughout the world, the pandemic has spread at different rates, and the way leaders are managing it differ vastly. The effects of this are seen in polling, leadership, and of course, media. In this episode of .think atlantic, International Republican Institute’s (IRI)  Thibault Muzergues interviews several guests from different parts of the Transatlantic space to hear about the political, social, and diplomatic consequences of the pandemic. The interviews in this episode were gathered during a seminar held as part of IRI's LEAD21 program, which provides skills-building, membership, and professional development for newly elected Members of Parliament.

Kristen Soltis Anderson is a Republican pollster, speaker, and writer in the United States, and she is the co-founder of Echelon Insights. Twitter: @KSoltisAnderson

David Goodhart is a British journalist, think-tanker, and author. His bestselling book The Road to Somewhere is about populism and the future of politics. Twitter: @David_Goodhart

Nicolas Tenzer is a French civil servant, writer, and currently, the editor of the journal Le Banquet. Twitter: @NTenzer

Dan Twining is the president of the International Republican Institute, and he has formerly served as the director of the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Twitter: @DCTwining

Find Thibault Muzergues on Twitter at @tmuzergues