Avik Roy

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’s work has been praised on both the right and the left.  National Review called him one of the nation’s “sharpest policy minds,” while The New York Times’ Paul Krugman concedes, “Roy is about as good as you get in this stuff… he actually knows something.”  Roy also serves as the Policy Editor at Forbes; on the Advisory Boards of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream and the Bitcoin Policy Institute; and as a Senior Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center. He has advised several presidential candidates, including Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney.  Roy was educated at MIT, where he studied molecular biology and the Yale University School of Medicine.