Yaron Brook

Specialties: Objectivism (the philosophy of Ayn Rand), Middle Eastern history, U.S. foreign policy, terrorism, finance, business ethics, venture capital, economics.

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Biography

Dr. Yaron Brook (MBA, University of Texas at Austin; PhD, Finance, University of Texas at Austin) is the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. He is a columnist at Forbes.com, and his articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, and many other publications. He is a frequent guest on national radio and television programs and is a contributing author to both Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea and Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism. Dr. Brook is co-author with ARI fellow Don Watkins of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government. A former finance professor, he speaks internationally on such topics as the causes of the financial crisis, the morality of capitalism, ending the growth of the state, and U.S. foreign policy.

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 Ph.D. in finance from the University of Texas at Austin; he became an American citizen in 2003. For seven years he was an award-winning finance professor at Santa Clara University, and in 1998 he cofounded a financial advisory firm, BH Equity Research, of which he is presently managing director and chairman.

Education
Work Experience
Military Experience
Board Memberships
Honors

Education

1994 PhD in Finance, University of Texas at Austin

1989 Master of Business Administration, University of Texas at Austin

1986 Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Work Experience

1/00 to present President and Executive Director, The Ayn Rand Institute, Irvine California

1/98 to present Founder, Managing Director and Chairman, BH Equity Research (a financial advisory firm specializing in market neutral strategies for public markets and in private equity), San Jose, California

9/93 to 8/00 Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University, Department of Finance

1/88 to 8/93 Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Finance Department, Austin, Texas

Military Experience

1979—1982 First Sergeant, Israeli Armed Forces, Military Intelligence

Board Memberships

Board of Directors of:

College America, Inc.

The Ayn Rand Institute

BH Equity Research

The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism

Honors

Leavey Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, Santa Clara University, 1997

Dean’s Teaching and Innovation Award, Santa Clara University, 1997