Gary Sasse, Hasenfeld Institute The pandemic has focused us on the role experts should play in making public policy. Technical and scientific knowledge is indispensable in informing elected officials. Indeed, successful presidents, governors and mayors have an awareness of what they do not know, making their best decisions when they exhibit intellectual humility. Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural and Constitutional Studies at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute reminds us, “the pandemic shows there are no purely technical solutions for problems that demand political leadership”. The paradigm that experts can determine solutions to governmental challenges based on the assumption that the facts speak for themselves has been a fantasy since the founding of the nation. In fact, the advice of scientists and experts are most needed when facts are challenged and analysis is embedded in experienced judgment assessing competing interpretations of data.