Nassim Nicholas
Taleb is a literary essayist and mathematical trader obsessed with
the multidisciplinary problems of uncertainty. His interests lie at the
juncture of philosophy, mathematics, finance, and the social sciences,
but he has stayed extremely close to the ground thanks to an
uninterrupted two-decade career as a quantitative trader in New York and
London.
Taleb is now taking a
break as the Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the
Isenberg School of Management of the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst. He previously taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences of New York University. His degrees include an MBA from the
Wharton School and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris.
His latest book, the bestselling
Fooled by Randomness, was translated into 21 languages and was
chosen by FORTUNE as part of the “ultimate reading list”, among such
other books as The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith), Machiavelli’s
The Prince, The General Treatise, (JM Keynes), The Art
of War (Sun Tzu).
He will be speaking on his most recent
book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
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