Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook (; born May 23, 1961) is an Israeli-American Objectivist writer who is the current chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), where he was executive director from 2000 to 2017. Prior to joining ARI, he was a finance professor at Santa Clara University, where he taught for seven years.

In 2018, a public event featuring Brook and Carl Benjamin, a controversial YouTuber known as "Sargon of Akkad", as speakers was protested by masked activists. Brook has claimed that "Islamic ideology" is not compatible with the moral values of the contemporary Western world. Provided by Wikipedia