Dr. Yaron Brook, President of the Ayn Rand Institute (GNSEA)
March 17, 2010, 6:00pm
Summary:
The burst of the housing bubble, government takeovers of several industries and an increasingly competitive global economy make it apparent that we are witnessing a period of economic uncertainty, where free market principles are being questioned.
Dr. Yaron Brook, President of the Ayn Rand Institute, will join Gen Next to discuss the contemporary relevance of Ayn Rand's ideas and how they matter to our Members. The evening will present Gen Next Members with the opportunity to interact with the award-winning professor, businessman, and renown speaker. Guest list enforced.
Detail:
When: March 17 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Bis on Main - 10213 Main Street, Bellevue,98004
RSVP: Chris
Dr. Yaron Brook is a prominent advocate for Objectivism, the philosophy of novelist Ayn Rand. As president of the Ayn Rand Institute - which is rooted in laissez faire principles, an educational organization based in Irvine, California, he is interviewed frequently in the media and has appeared regularly on the Fox Business Network to debate and discuss current economic and financial news from the Objectivist viewpoint.
Dr. Brook is a frequent guest on a variety of radio and TV shows, having appeared on Fox Business News, Fox News (The O'Reilly Factor, Your World with Neil Cavuto, At Large with Geraldo Rivera), CNN (Talkback Live and the Glenn Beck Program), CNBC (Closing Bell and On the Money), and C-SPAN. Dr. Brook has also contributed commentary to Forbes.com, and his articles have been featured in major newspapers such as USA Today, the Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, Providence Journal, and the Orange County Register.
Dr. Brook was born and raised in Israel. He served as a first sergeant in Israeli military intelligence and earned a BS 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. Brook became an American citizen on May 28, 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.