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Avik Roy
Roy at a discussion for New America in 2017
Born
Rochester, Michigan
Other namesAvik S. A. Roy
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale School of Medicine
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Editor
  • Policy advisor & political strategist
  • Investment analyst

Avik Roy (/ˈoʊvɪk ˈrɔɪ/; Bengali: অভীক রায়) is an American conservative commentator and activist.

Education and early career[edit]

Roy was born in Rochester, Michigan, to Indian immigrant parents, and attended high school in Beverly Hills, Michigan and San Antonio, Texas.[1] In his senior year he was named a first team member of the 1990 USA Today All-USA High School Academic Team, awarded to the twenty best performing academic students in the country.[2] In his college years, Roy studied molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3] In 1993, during Roy's term as a writer for the MIT student publication Counterpoint, he was unsuccessfully sued for defamation by Trinidadian Africana studies professor Tony Martin, after publishing an article detailing past controversies surrounding Martin.[4][5] Roy then attended the Yale School of Medicine. Roy was active politically at Yale, where he served as the chairman for the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union.[2]

Between 2001 and 2004, Roy worked as an analyst and portfolio manager at investment firm Bain Capital,[2][6] later working in a similar position for JPMorgan Chase, which he left to found a healthcare-focused hedge fund.[7][8] In 2009, Roy was working as the managing partner at the New York-based hedge fund Mymensingh Partners,[9] later working for the securities firm Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co., Inc.[10] In early 2012, Roy founded Roy Healthcare Research, an investment research firm located in New York.[2][11]

Commentary and activism[edit]

In March 2009, Roy began writing The Apothecary, a personal blog focusing on healthcare policy, particularly his opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He was able to devote more time to the blog from 2010 onward,[12] reaching a wider audience in 2010 when National Review Online featured his posts as a part of their health-care focused blog, Critical Condition, and their policy-focused blog, The Agenda, where he worked with Reihan Salam and Josh Barro.[13] In February 2011, Roy's blog was officially picked up by Forbes as an integrated blog featured on their website.[2][14] In January 2014, Roy was appointed the opinion editor for Forbes.[2]

Roy became a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in 2011.[3] In 2013 Roy published the book How Medicaid Fails the Poor, a work arguing that Medicaid produces poor health outcomes and limited access to physician care.[15] In 2014, he authored a proposal for health care reform through the Manhattan Institute, entitled Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency.[16] This was elaborated on in his third publication, The Case Against Obamacare (2014).[17]

In 2016, Roy co-founded the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a think tank.[18][19] Roy has written for Forbes, National Review, and other outlets.[20][21] He has appeared on TV such as Fox News, Fox Business, MSNBC, CNBC and Bloomberg Television.[2] He has appeared on PBS's Newshour and on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher.

Republican advisor[edit]

In 2012, Roy was health care policy advisor to the Mitt Romney presidential campaign.[2] In the 2016 Republican primary, Roy was initially senior advisor to former Texas governor Rick Perry's 2016 presidential campaign.[22][23] In September 2015, Perry suspended his presidential campaign. Shortly thereafter, Roy joined the 2016 presidential campaign of Marco Rubio as an advisor.[24]

Roy has been on the Board of Advisors for the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation which he joined in 2014,[25] and Concerned Veterans for America.[26]

In July 2016, as quoted in a Vox article, Roy said that the Republican Party had "lost its right to govern, because it is driven by white nationalism rather than a true commitment to equality for all Americans."[27]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ball, Molly. "Saving Conservatism From Trump's GOP". The Atlantic. No. November 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Penn, Tiffany (December 18, 2013). "Forbes Taps Health Policy Expert Avik Roy To Become Opinion Editor". Forbes. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Avik Roy". Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  4. ^ Barringer, Felicity (January 1, 1999). "Teacher's Libel Suit Dismissed". The New York Times. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  5. ^ Hussain, Zareena (January 6, 1999). "Counterpoint Writer Cleared in Libel Suit". The Tech. MIT. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  6. ^ Roy, Avik (January 6, 1999). "Bain Capital's Legacy in South Carolina". National Review Online. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  7. ^ Laforte, Marie-Eve (26 January 2006). "Amgen's fourth-quarter earnings, revenue rise on strong sales". FirstWord Pharma. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  8. ^ "Former JP Morgan Analyst Preps Hedge Fund". FIN Alternatives. March 21, 2008. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  9. ^ Herper, Matthew (January 7, 2009). "The Value Of New Drugs Is Dropping". Forbes. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  10. ^ Herper, Matthew (January 7, 2009). "Genomics: No Longer A Failure". Forbes. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  11. ^ "Roy Healthcare Research, LLC". Business Lookup. CME United. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  12. ^ "I Have Resurfaced!". Avik Roy. March 22, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  13. ^ "Avik Roy". National Review. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  14. ^ "The Apothecary is Moving to Forbes.com". Avik Roy. January 30, 2011. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  15. ^ "How Medicaid Fails the Poor". Encounter Books. Archived from the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  16. ^ Jost, Timothy (September 2, 2014). "Transcending Obamacare? Analyzing Avik Roy's ACA Replacement Plan". Project HOPE. doi:10.1377/forefront.20140902.041142. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ "The Case Against Obamacare Kindle Edition". Amazon. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  18. ^ FREOPP (2016-06-12). "Our Mission". Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  19. ^ "'It's about helping people': Inside the new group trying to boost the working class, sans Trump". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  20. ^ Roy, Avik (26 June 2013). "Let Jindal be Jindal". National Review. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  21. ^ Roy, Avik (31 July 2014). "50 Years After The Civil Rights Act, Integration Remains Elusive". Forbes. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  22. ^ Svitek, Patrick (April 20, 2015). "Perry's Likely 2016 Campaign Gets Policy Team". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  23. ^ Ferris, Sarah (April 20, 2015). "Perry lands ex-Romney healthcare adviser". The Hill. News Communications. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  24. ^ Sullivan, Peter (12 October 2015). "Rubio lands major conservative health expert". The Hill. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  25. ^ "Avik Roy Joins NIHCM Foundation Advisory Board". NIHCM. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  26. ^ Phelps, Caroline (September 29, 2014). "CVA LAUNCHES FIXING VETERANS HEALTH CARE POLICY TASKFORCE". Concerned Veterans for America. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  27. ^ "A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die". Vox. 2016-07-25. Archived from the original on 2023-07-23.

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