Yaron Brook
Dr. Yaron Brook is a prominent
advocate for
Objectivism, the philosophy of novelist Ayn Rand. As president
of the
Ayn Rand Institute, an educational organization based in
California, he appears frequently on national TV and radio to
discuss current events and issues from the Objectivist viewpoint. He
is a regular guest on CNBC for his expertise on matters related to
business, finance and economics. And as an expert on US foreign
policy in the Middle East, he is often interviewed about issues
related to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the war in Iraq.
As a writer, Dr. Brook has
published articles in many newspapers and professional journals. His
most recent editorial on CEO pay appeared in USA Today, and
his articles
"'Just War Theory' vs. American Self-Defense" (co-authored with
Alex Epstein) and
"The 'Forward Strategy' for Failure" (with Elan Journo) were
published in The Objective Standard, a new journal devoted
to cultural and political issues. You can read both of
these articles for free online at
the journal's Web site.
Dr. Brook was born and raised in
Israel. He served as a First Sergeant in Israeli military
intelligence and earned a BSc in civil engineering from Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel. In 1987 he moved
to the United States, where he received his MBA and PhD in finance
from the University of Texas at Austin; he became an American
citizen on May 28, 2003. For seven years he was an
award-winning finance professor at Santa Clara University, and in
1998 he co-founded a financial advisory firm, BH Equity Research, at
which he is presently managing director and chairman.
