He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B.A. at St. Thomas University. Before coming to Queen's, he was a policy associate at the University of Toronto's Mowat Centre; a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance; and a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Kyle's research interests include comparative federalism, political economy, public debt, Canadian politics and the regulation of Great Lakes water levels. He is writing a book on fiscal federalism and government default risk.