Avik Roy is President & CEO of the National Institute for Health Care Management. He is also co-founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a non-partisan, non-profit think tank working to improve social mobility using freedom, innovation, and pluralism.
Roy has served as a policy advisor to several presidential candidates, and his work has been praised on both the right and the left. NBC’s Chuck Todd, on Meet the Press, said Roy was one “of the most thoughtful guys [who has] been debating” health care reform.
Roy was an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow from 2022 to 2024. He serves on advisory boards at the National Academy of Medicine, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, the University of Pennsylvania, the Milken Institute, the Bipartisan Policy Center, and other institutions; and co-chaired the Fixing Veterans Health Care Policy Taskforce.
Along with Forbes, where Roy served as the Opinion and Policy Editor for a decade, Roy’s writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and frequently appears on national television news programs.
Previously, Roy worked as a health care investor at Bain Capital, J.P. Morgan, and other firms.