Prof. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, Author of the Incerto Series of Books (including The Black Swan) & Advisory Board Member of Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC)

University of Nicosia

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent more than 20 years as a derivatives trader before starting a full-time career in research in the field of risk management and applied probability.

Taleb has been involved in risk-based policy making, advising the IMF, and the UK Prime Minister on model error and the detection and mitigation of tail exposures. He has also been hired the RAND corporation and various branches of the U.S. government and has testified twice for the United States Congress.

Taleb holds a PhD from the University of Paris and an MBA from the Wharton School. He is the author of the Incerto, a 4-volume essay on uncertainty (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, The Bed of Procrustes), and Dynamic Hedging (1997), a technical clinical book on derivatives, in addition to Silent Risk, a freely available technical book (and reexpression of the Incerto) in applied probability theory.