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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Author, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 21 years as a risk taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical and (mostly) practical problems relating to probability.

Taleb is the author of the Incerto, a five volume philosophical essay on uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 (which include The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game) covering broad facets of uncertainty. It has been translated into 36 languages. 

In addition to his trader life, Taleb has also written more than 50 scholarly papers on statistical physics, statistics, philosophy, ethics, economics, international affairs, and quantitative finance, all around the notion of risk and probability.  

Taleb is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering as well as a scientific advisor for Universa Investments. His current focus is on the properties of systems that can handle disorder ("antifragile"). 

Taleb refuses all honours and anything that "turns knowledge into a spectator sport".

Taleb travelled the conventional route of education to real-life and theory to practice in inverse sequence from the common one, moving from the practical to the philosophical to the mathematical. He started as a trader, then got a doctorate in mid-trading career; he wrote literary books before writing technical papers, and his work has become progressively more technical and formal with time. 

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