Avik Roy

Avik Roy is a journalist, editor, researcher, policy advisor, political strategist, and investment analyst. He offers a thoughtful perspective on policy, including health care policy, and economics that combines strong backgrounds in finance and medicine and is widely praised by both the right and the left.

Roy has also served as advisor on policy to three Republican presidential candidates. Roy was a health care policy advisor to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.

As Policy Editor at Forbes, he writes on politics and policy, and manages The Apothecary, the influential Forbes blog on health care policy and entitlement reform. He is the author of Affordable Health Care for Every Generation: A Patient-Centered Plan for Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency and How Medicaid Fails the Poor. An early critic of the Affordable Care Act, Roy is a passionate believer in the conservative case for universal coverage, the idea that markets and competition can bring quality health care to every American.

Roy is Co-Founder and President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a think tank focused on expanding economic opportunity to those who least have it.

Roy’s research interests include the Affordable Care Act, universal coverage, entitlement reform, veteran’s health care, international health systems and FDA policy. Roy was Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research from 2011 to 2016. Roy was formerly an investment analyst and portfolio manager for Bain Capital and J.P. Morgan, and was Managing Partner at the hedge fund Mymensingh Partners.