Literary essayist and epistemologist
Nassim Taleb had a longstanding senior trading and financial mathematics career in a number of New York City's Wall Street firms, before starting a second career as a scholar. He had previously studied at the University of Paris, the Wharton School, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Taleb specialises in the epistemology of chance events and how to live in a world of randomness. He is the author of the bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007).
18 Aug 2009
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"What to do about Iran?", featuring Daniel Levy, Fawaz Gerges, and Roxane Farmanfarmaian, RGS, 7th June
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One of America's most influential columnists on the decline of America, at the Royal Institution, 13th June 2012
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American neuroscientist David Eagleman on the science of hatred and dehumanisation, RIBA, 24th May 2012
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