Shu-ling Ko is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, where she is analyzing Taiwan’s management of COVID-19 to understand the nation’s strong democratic performance at a time when other democracies have been faltering around the world. She has previously worked as a beat reporter at the Taipei Times and at the Taipei office of Kyodo News, Japan’s largest and oldest news agency. For her coverage of cross-strait relations and Pacific politics, Ms. Ko was awarded a Jefferson Fellowship at the East-West Center in 2015. She has also served on the executive committees of the Association of Taiwan Journalists, the East-West Center, and the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club.
