The following experts are available for interviews on Ayn Rand, her novel Atlas Shrugged, the motion pictures based on the novel, and the impact of Rand’s books and ideas on American culture and politics. Contact Kurt Kramer at media@aynrand.org or call 202-454-1997 x202.

Yaron Brook is president of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. He is a columnist at Forbes.com, and his articles have been featured in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Investor’s Business Daily. Dr. Brook is often interviewed on radio and is a frequent guest on a variety of national TV programs. He is co-author of Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea and a contributor to Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism. Dr. Brook, a former finance professor, is an internationally sought after speaker on such topics as the causes of the financial crisis, the morality of capitalism, 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.

Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is a columnist at Forbes.com, and his op-eds have appeared in such venues as Investor’s Business Daily, The Christian Science Monitor, FoxNews.com, CNBC.com and Forbes magazine. He has appeared on nationally syndicated radio programs and is a regular guest on PJTV’s Front Page with Allen Barton. His book, Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, co-authored by Yaron Brook, was released in September, 2012.

Debi Ghate is Vice President of Education and Research at the Ayn Rand Institute where she also serves as a corporate officer. Mrs. Ghate has a BSc in Psychology and Biology from the University of Toronto, and an LLB in Law from the University of Calgary. Prior to joining ARI, she practiced law with a focus on insurance defense litigation at a major Canadian insurance company and in private practice. Her op-eds and letters to the editor were published in newspapers such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, the Providence Journal, Education Update and The U.K. Daily Express. Mrs. Ghate is also the senior director of the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship, a separate organization from ARI that supports scholarly work based on Ayn Rand’s corpus.

Onkar Ghate is a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He teaches at the Institute’s Objectivist Academic Center, speaks on philosophy and Objectivism across North America, and publishes scholarly articles on Ayn Rand’s fiction and philosophy. His op-eds have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Foxnews.com, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Providence Journal, San Diego Business Journal, Orange County Register and BusinessWeek.com. He has given numerous radio interviews, including NPR, BBC Radio, and has appeared as a television guest on CNBC, KCET, Fox News Channel and the CBS Evening News. Dr. Ghate received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Calgary.

Elan Journo is a fellow in foreign policy at the Ayn Rand Institute, and the director of ARI’s Policy division. His book, Winning the Unwinnable War, looks at what went wrong with America’s response to 9/11—and what we should do going forward. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, PBS and NPR affiliates, and numerous nationally syndicated radio programs, including The Thom Hartmann Program. He has been a guest commentator on Front Page with Allen Barton on PJTV.com. His articles have appeared in, among many others, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and Canada’s Globe and Mail. Mr. Journo has spoken at numerous college campuses, including Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, New York University, and George Mason University.

Keith Lockitch has a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, and teaches at the Institute’s Objectivist Academic Center. His writings have appeared in publications such as the Washington Times, Orange County Register and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Thomas A. Bowden is outreach liaison for the Ayn Rand Center. His op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and Investor’s Business Daily. An attorney with extensive litigation and appellate experience, Mr. Bowden taught at the University of Baltimore School of Law for six years. He is the author of The Enemies of Christopher Columbus, which challenges multiculturalist myths surrounding the discovery and settlement of America, and a contributing author to The Abolition of Antitrust. He holds a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Doug Altner is an analyst and instructor at the Ayn Rand Institute. Prior to joining ARI, he was an assistant professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he was instrumental in creating a major in operations research and published several scholarly articles on the subject. He is currently pursuing writing projects on Ayn Rand’s views on capitalism and economics.

Rituparna Basu is a writer and research associate at the Ayn Rand Institute. She is editor of ARI’s donor newsletter, Impact, and conducts research and editorial projects for the Institute’s Policy team.