Nassim Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is widely recognized as the foremost thinker on probability and uncertainty. A well-acclaimed writer, Taleb published a multivolume collection on uncertainty called Incerto, which has been published in 49 languages. He has also authored more than fifty scholarly papers as backup to Incerto, ranging from international affairs and risk management to statistical physics. Taleb is an essayist, mathematical statistician, risk analyst, and aphorist. Before becoming a scholar, he spent 21 years as a derivatives trader, where he closed 650,000 option transactions and examined 200,000 risk reports. Currently, Taleb is a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, where his current focus is on the properties of systems that can handle disorder.