Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1960–present · New York, United States, with regular time in Amioun, Lebanon
Naming the black swan and antifragility, and arguing across the five volume Incerto that the world is ruled by rare, unpredictable, high impact events, so the only sane strategy is to stop forecasting and instead engineer your exposure so that shocks cannot ruin you and may even help you.
Volumes in the Incerto Five, from Fooled by Randomness (2001) to Skin in the Game (2018)
Career as an options trader About two decades, across six banks and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Financially independent since Black Monday, October 19, 1987
NYU Tandon Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering from 2008, now listed by NYU as Retired Distinguished Professor in Finance and Risk Engineering
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