Jack Schallich

Jack Schallich is a Master of Science in Foreign Service student at Georgetown University, concentrating in Global Politics and Security. His academic interests center on alliance systems, democratic resilience, and the geopolitical dynamics of Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

Jack holds a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University, where he specialized in Europe and International History with a minor in East Asian Studies focused on China. His undergraduate work examined global political history, regional conflicts, and international diplomacy, alongside extensive language studies in Mandarin, Czech, French, Italian, and German. He also studied abroad in Florence, deepening his interest in European politics, cultural identity, and transnational governance.

At Stanford, Jack served as the inaugural Head of International Engagement for Democracy Day, leading collaborations to promote civic engagement during two U.S. election cycles. He organized public programs featuring scholars, civil society leaders, and policymakers from institutions such as the Hoover Institution, Freeman Spogli Institute, and the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He hopes to expand this initiative at Georgetown during the 2026 elections. He also worked as a research assistant for Dr. Didi Kuo at CDDRL, contributing to scholarship on democratic backsliding and programmatic decline.

Jack’s international experience includes a research internship with the Lisbon Council in Brussels, where he supported a European Commission brief on emerging technologies in education and professional development. He is interested in pursuing law school to study international law and in the Fulbright Program to research Eastern European democratic resilience and institutional development in Prague. He hopes to build a career advancing institutions that foster democratic governance and international collective defense.