Keynote Speaker: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a veteran derivatives trader, scholar in applied probability and risk management, and essayist. He is known for a multidisciplinary approach to role of the high-impact rare event and for anti-theoretical skeptical empiricism in the treatment of models. He held senior positions with major banks, focusing on the trading and risk management of complex derivatives (CSFB, UBS, BNP-Paribas, Bankers Trust among others) and worked independently on the floor of the Chicago exchanges. Since 1999 he has been specializing in protecting portfolios against extreme events.
Taleb is currently Visiting Professor at the London Business School. He is formerly the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also taught derivatives modeling and model errors at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has an MBA from Wharton and a Ph.d. in Management Science from the University of Paris.
Aside from his scientific and scholarly papers, Taleb is the author of Dynamic Hedging (1997), Fooled by Randomness (2005) the NYT Bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007). His work has been translated into 24 languages, making him one of the most translated living scientists and essayists. He was inducted in many halls of fame, most recently, the Power 30 by SmartMoney, The Wall Street Journal Magazine.
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