Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty

Email:
Web Site: fooledbyrandomness.com

Ph.D., Université Paris-Dauphine
M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications:

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, 2007, Random House (US) and Penguin (UK).

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Random House, 2005.

“Blowup” versus “Bleed”: What Does Empirical Psychology Say About the Preference For Negative Skewness? Journal of Behavioral Finance, vol. 5, 1, 2-7, 2004. ...more

Academic and Professional Activities:

Professor of Mathematics, New York University
Visiting Professor, Université Paris-Dauphine
Founder, Empirica LLC

Awards:

Inducted into the Derivatives Hall of Fame, 2001