Daniel Runde ‘26 is a student at the University of Notre Dame studying Global Affairs and Italian Studies. He is fluent in Spanish and highly proficient in Italian and French. Runde hopes to work on Capitol Hill or in Europe after graduation, working on foreign policy issues. Runde has interned for the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, WTW, CeSPI, and AT&T, working on foreign policy, risk, and regulatory issues.
Runde’s research interests include democratic backsliding, trade, electoral politics, and governance in Europe and Latin America. He currently serves as a Keough School Global Ambassador, where he represents the Keough School in various public capacities and helps engage peers within the Keough School, across campus, and with prospective students. While studying abroad in Rome in the Spring of 2025, he wrote a research paper highlighting perspectives within the Meloni’s coalition government on Ukrainian accession to the EU and Ukraine’s main challenges in the process. For his capstone deliverable wrote a research paper on how Mexico’s telecommunications regulations and market structure threaten AT&T’s competitiveness ahead of the 2026 USMCA review and argues that stronger enforcement of the agreement is needed.
Runde has also traveled to Italy three times through Notre Dame and has traveled to 29 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.