Avik Roy

Avik Roy (/ˈoʊvɪk rɔɪ/; Bengali: অভীক রায়) is an Bengali-American journalist, editor, policy advisor, political strategist, and investment analyst. While working as an investment research analyst, Roy began blogging in response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, from a critical point of view. The blog was republished at National Review Online, and moved to Forbes in 2011. Roy has published two books about the Affordable Care Act, as well as research and proposals though the Manhattan Institute, where he is a senior fellow.

Roy has advised three Republican Party presidential candidates. He was a health care policy advisor to Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign and was the senior advisor to Rick Perry's 2016 campaign. After Rick Perry withdrew from the race, Roy joined the 2016 presidential campaign of Marco Rubio as a policy advisor.

Education and investment analysis

Roy was born in Rochester, Michigan to Bengali parents, and attended high school in Beverly Hills, Michigan and San Antonio, Texas, where in his senior year he was named a first team member of the USA Today All-USA High School Academic Team, awarded to the twenty best performing academic students in the country. In his college years, Roy studied molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1993, during Roy's term as a writer for the MIT student publication Counterpoint, he was unsuccessfully sued for defamation by Trinidadian Africana studies professor Tony Martin, after publishing an article detailing past controversies surrounding Martin. Roy then attended the Yale School of Medicine. Roy was active politically at Yale, where he served as the chairman for the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, a debating society.