Avik Roy
President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
President and CEO of NIHCM LLC and NIHCM Foundation
Biography
Avik Roy is the President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP.org), a think tank improving the lives of Americans on the bottom half of the economic ladder using freedom, innovation, and pluralism. Roy also serves as the President and CEO of NIHCM LLC and NIHCM Foundation.
Roy’s work has been praised widely on both the right and the left. National Review has called him one of the nation’s “sharpest policy minds,” while the New York Times’ Paul Krugman described him as man of “personal and moral courage.” NBC’s Chuck Todd, on Meet the Press, said Roy was one “of the most thoughtful guys [who has] been debating” health care reform. He has advised several presidential candidates on policy, including Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney.
Roy is best known for his plan to achieve universal coverage through private health insurance, which has been introduced as the Fair Care Act in both chambers of Congress. He is author of How Medicaid Fails the Poor, published by Encounter Books in 2013, and other books. He is an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. He serves on the advisory boards of the National Institute for Health Care Management, the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and other organizations. He is a Senior Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center, co-chaired the Fixing Veterans Health Care Policy Taskforce, and serves on the Boards of Directors of CrowdHealth and the Texas Bitcoin Foundation.
Along with Forbes, where Roy serves as the Policy Editor, Roy’s writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Atlantic, among other publications. He is a frequent guest on television news programs, including appearances on CBS, NBC, PBS, HBO, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg.
Previously, Roy worked as a health care investor and portfolio manager at Bain Capital, J.P. Morgan, and other firms. He was born and raised near Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from high school in San Antonio, Texas. USA Today named him to its All-USA High School Academic First Team, honoring the top 20 high school seniors in the country. Roy was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied molecular biology, and the Yale University School of Medicine.