Ross Schaap
Director
Ross Schaap is a director in Eurasia Group's comparative analytics practices, responsible for developing quantitative methods for the research team. He is also an analyst in the Asia practice group, focusing on Japan. Ross received a PhD in political science from UCLA and a master's degree in Asian studies (focused on Japanese) from the University of Hawaii. His academic research focused on the relationship between political institutions, incentives, and regulatory policy. He has also lived and researched extensively in Japan, conducting empirical research on Japanese financial deregulation and the relationship between regulatory policy design and market outcomes. He speaks Japanese.
Previously, Ross worked as a visiting professor at the University of California, in the Davis department of political science. He spent the 2003-2004 academic year as a research fellow in Harvard University's Program on US-Japan relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He has published articles on financial regulatory reform and the domestic politics of banking in Japan, and presented papers at numerous professional conferences.