Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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1960 –

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Who is Nassim Nicholas Taleb?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese American essayist, scholar and statistician, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.

Taleb is a bestselling author, and has been a professor at several universities, currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering. He has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance, a hedge fund manager, a derivatives trader, and is currently a scientific adviser at Universa Investments and the International Monetary Fund.

He criticized the risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently profiting from the late-2000s financial crisis. He advocates what he calls a "black swan robust" society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events. He proposes "antifragility" in systems, that is, an ability to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility as well as "convex tinkering" as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means that option-like experimentation outperforms directed research.

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Born
Jan 1, 1960
Amioun
Also known as
  • Nassim Taleb
Religion
  • Greek Orthodox Church
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Lebanon
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Paris
  • Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Paris Dauphine University
Lived in
  • United States of America
  • Lebanon

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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