Kyler Schardein

Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: Global Governance, Democracy and Digital Governance, U.S. Foreign Policy History, and British Foreign Policy

Kyler Schardein is a member of the Leadership in the Public Arena Teaching Team at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, where he works with public policy graduate students. He holds a Master of Public Policy from Batten, where he focused on national security and foreign policy issues, including digital governance and global governance issues. He wrote his capstone Applied Policy Project on U.S. strategies for combating global digital repression.

Previously, Kyler worked as a Research Associate at the National Security Policy Center and served as a Global Governance Intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations and Oxbridge Institutions and Policy from William Jewell College, writing his honors thesis on the United Kingdom and the Great Eastern Crisis of 1875-78. During his undergraduate studies, he attended the University of Oxford’s Mansfield College as a Visiting Student, where he received the Grenader Family Prize for Best Visiting Student Academic Performance.