Evening Seminar with Yaron Brook

Speaker: Yaron Brook

Date: Wednesday 26 January 2011

Time: 06:30pm - 08:30pm

RSVP: events@adamsmith.org

Location: St Stephen's Club, St Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AB

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"How to be a rational egoist"

Yaron Brook is president of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. He is a columnist at Forbes.com, contributing editor of The Objective Standard, and his articles have been featured in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Investor’s Business Daily. Dr. Brook is often interviewed on radio and is a frequent guest on a variety of national TV programs. He is co-author of Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea and a contributor to Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism. Dr. Brook, a former finance professor, is an internationally sought after speaker on such topics as the causes of the financial crisis, the morality of capitalism, and U.S. foreign policy.

Dr. Brook was born and raised in Israel. He served as a first sergeant in Israeli military intelligence and earned a BSc 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; he became an American citizen in 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.