CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Nassim Taleb
New York Times Bestselling Author, "The Black Swan" & Distinguished Scientific Advisor, Universa Investments
Nassim N. Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became a scholar and philosophical essayist in 2006. Although he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University, he self-funds his research and operates in the manner of independent scholars. He is also Distinguished Scientific Advisor at Universa Investments L.P., an investment manager that specializes in tail hedging as a means to enhance long-term equity returns.
Mr. Taleb is the author of The Incerto: A Philosophical Essay on Uncertainty, in Four Volumes, which includes The Black Swan (2007) and Antifragile (2012). He is also author of a series of mathematical monographs on Probability and Risk in the Real World. His work focuses on decision-making under opacity and how systems can handle disorder.
