Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook is a leading advocate for free markets, individual liberty, and Objectivism. He has contributed to public debates through lectures, media appearances, podcasts, and published commentary and is a frequent contributor to leading media outlets, including Forbes, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, and numerous other publications. As host of The Yaron Brook Show, he lectures worldwide on capitalism, finance, free speech, political and economic freedom, and the philosophy of Ayn Rand.

Born and raised in Israel, Brook served as a First Sergeant in Israeli Military Intelligence before earning a BSc in Civil Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. In 1987, he moved to the United States, where he earned both an MBA and a PhD in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. He later became an award-winning finance professor at Santa Clara University and, in 1998, co-founded BH Equity Research, where he serves as Founder and Director.

Brook is the author and co-author of several books, including Why Nationalism is Hostile to America, Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality, Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. His writing explores the moral foundations of capitalism, the role of finance in society, and contemporary political and economic issues.

He currently serves as Chairman of the Board and a principal spokesperson for the Ayn Rand Institute. He also serves on the boards of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and the Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE) and is a member of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Mont Pelerin Society.