Avik Roy is president and CEO of the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming health care through evidence and collaboration. He is also co-founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a nonpartisan think tank working to improve social mobility using freedom, innovation, and pluralism. 

Roy is best known for his plan to achieve universal coverage through private health insurance, which has been introduced in Congress as the Fair Care Act. He was an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow from 2022 to 2024. He serves on advisory boards at the National Academy of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania, the Milken Institute, the Bipartisan Policy Center, as well as other institutions. Roy co-chaired the Fixing Veterans Health Care Policy Taskforce and has served as a policy advisor to several presidential candidates. Previously, Roy worked as a health care investor at Bain Capital, J.P. Morgan, and other firms. 

National Review called Roy one of the nation’s “sharpest policy minds,” while the New York Times’ Paul Krugman described him as a man of “personal and moral courage.” NBC’s Chuck Todd, on Meet the Press, said Roy was one “of the most thoughtful guys [who has] been debating” health care reform.  

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. He is also a frequent guest on national television news programs.