Dr. Tevi Troy

Tevi Troy is a Senior Fellow and at the Ronald Reagan Institute, a Senior Scholar at the Straus Center at Yeshiva University, a former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services and White House aide, and a best-selling presidential historian.  His latest book is The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between American Titans of Industry and Commanders in Chief, named as one of the best books of 2024 by The Economist, The Guardian, The Jerusalem Post, and The Week.

On August 3, 2007, Dr. Troy was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  As Deputy Secretary, Dr. Troy was the chief operating officer of the largest civilian department in the federal government, with a budget of $716 billion and over 67,000 employees. 

Dr. Troy has extensive White House experience, having served in several high-level positions over a five-year period, culminating in his service as Deputy Assistant and then Acting Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. 

Dr. Troy has held high-level positions on Capitol Hill as well.  From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Troy served as the Policy Director for Senator John Ashcroft. From 1996 to 1998, Troy was Senior Domestic Policy Adviser and later Domestic Policy Director for the House Policy Committee, chaired by Christopher Cox.

In addition to his senior level government work and health care expertise, Dr. Troy is also a presidential historian, making him one of only a handful of historians who has both studied the White House as a historian and worked there at the highest levels.  He is the author of multiple books, including the Washington Post best-seller What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House; Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians?; Shall We Wake the President? Two Centuries of Disaster Management in the Oval Office, which warned in 2016 that we were unprepared for coronavirus; and Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump, named as one of 2020’s top political books by the Wall Street Journal.  He has written over 400 published articles, for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, The Atlantic, and many other publications.  He is a frequent television and radio analyst, and has appeared on CNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, and The NewsHour, among other outlets. 

Dr. Troy also serves on numerous boards, both in the private and public sector. He is a board member of one public company, Avalon Globocare, a NASDAQ listed company for whom he is also on the compensation committee.

Dr. Troy's many other affiliations include: 2025-2026 Moynihan Center Public Scholar; contributing writer for The Washington Examiner; contributing editor for Washingtonian magazine; member of the publication committee of National Affairs; and a member of the Board of Fellows of the Jewish Policy Center.  In 2012, he was a Special Policy Adviser to the Mitt Romney presidential campaign and Director of Domestic Policy for the nascent Romney transition.

Dr. Troy has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an M.A and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Troy and his wife Kami live in Maryland and have four children.