Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Arabic: نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب, English: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, September 12, 1960 -), a Lebanese-American. A well-known thinker, financial industry professional, mathematical statistician, former options trader, risk engineering professor, and philosophical essayist. He is world-famous for his book "The Black Swan Effect". Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman said it "changed the world's thinking about uncertainty." Taleb's main research interests lie in issues such as "randomness", "uncertainty", and "rare events" (black swan events). Author of Incerto, a five-volume philosophical essay on uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 (especially The Black Swan Effect and Antifragile). Since September 2014, he has served as co-editor of the academic journal Risk and Decision Analysis. He has also been a mathematical finance practitioner, hedge fund manager and derivatives trader and is currently listed as a scientific advisor to Universa Investments. His famous work "Random Scam" was selected as the "Smartest Books of All Time" by Fortune magazine, while "The Black Swan Effect" has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 31 weeks, and was selected by the "Sunday Times" as "the 12 most influential books since World War II".