Nassim Taleb is considered the premier specialist of rare events and their impact (“black swans"). He has helped the U.S. Department of Defense as well as top central banks and money management firms deal with tail risks, and his best-selling books are translated into 20 languages. Nassim is in addition among the most veteran option traders in the world, having held senior trading positions at investment banks and having founded Empirica Capital LLC. He also holds academic positions at the London Business School, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Nassim received an M.B.A. from Wharton and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris.