Philip Gant is Research Director at Regulatory Ecosystems Group and an Associate of the Harvard University Asia Center. He researches how regulation develops. Philip specializes in how people and institutions in misunderstood yet mission-critical sectors use procedural and policy mechanisms creatively to forge new pathways through government and law for us all. He is especially interested in how, throughout that process, trust in complex systems like law and money is built and maintained. Trained as a legal historian of East Asia, he did his undergrad at Yale (2010) and Ph.D. at Harvard (2021), living along the way in Korea, China, and Japan. From 2020-2022, he was a postdoc at Yale, where he taught "Faith in Law in East Asia: Beginnings to 1800." He then established the Regulatory Ecosystems Group in order to apprehend and shape regulation in real time.