Philosopher, scholar of randomness, essayist, risk-management expert and the author of the NYT Bestseller The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a scholar of risk management, literary essayist, and veteran derivatives trader. He is known for a multidisciplinary approach to the role of the high-impact rare event.

He held senior positions with major banks, focusing on the trading and risk management of complex derivatives and worked independently on the floor of the Chicago exchanges. He went on his own in 1999 and, until 2008, specialized in protecting portfolios against extreme events.

He is currently visiting Professor at the London Business School. He held among other positions that of the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and taught derivatives modeling at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.

He has an MBA from Wharton and a PhD from the University of Paris.

Taleb held positions of managing director and head trader at Union Bank of Switzerland, worldwide chief derivatives trader for currencies, commodities and non-dollar fixed income at CS-First Boston, chief currency derivatives trader for Banque Indosuez (age 25), Managing Director and worldwide head of financial option arbitrage at CIBC-Wood Gundy, derivatives arbitrage trader at Bankers Trust, proprietary trader at BNP-Paribas, as well as independent option market maker on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (...). Currently he is a board member of a few hedge funds.

Taleb is, among other books and scholarly papers, the author of the NYT Bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. His books have more than a million copies in print. His work has been translated into 27 languages.

Honors

Derivatives Hall of Fame (2001), Power 30 2008 (Wall Street Journal/Smart Money.), Frost & Sullivan Visionary of the Year (2008)

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