Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American essayist and former options trader; wrote The Black Swan; NYU professor of risk engineering.
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- Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician and former options trader, born in Amioun, Lebanon, in 1960.
- His five-volume Incerto on uncertainty includes Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007), Antifragile (2012) and Skin in the Game (2018).
- After a trading career at banks including UBS and Credit Suisse First Boston, he has been Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering from September 2008, and from 2007 an adviser to Mark Spitznagel’s fund Universa Investments.
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- Born
- 12 September 1960, Amioun, Lebanon1
- Education
- MBA, Wharton School (1983); PhD in management science, University of Paris-Dauphine (1998)1
- NYU Tandon
- Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering from September 20081
- Universa Investments
- Adviser from 20071
- Incerto
- Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007), The Bed of Procrustes (2010), Antifragile (2012), Skin in the Game (2018)1
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