{"id":3042,"date":"2011-03-18T23:27:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T06:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/c902250ce8f77933"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:19:13","slug":"nassim-taleb-author-of-the-black-swan-confirmed-to-speak-at-the-unep-fi-global-roundtable-united-nations-environment-programme-finance-initiative-unep-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/nassim-taleb-author-of-the-black-swan-confirmed-to-speak-at-the-unep-fi-global-roundtable-united-nations-environment-programme-finance-initiative-unep-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nassim Taleb, author of &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217;, confirmed to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable<\/h2>\n<div><span>18.03.2011<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4b5753870738197f\"> <span>Share<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurocharity.gr\/images\/thumbs\/nassim_nicholas_taleb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centre<br \/>\nWashington, D.C., U.S.A.<br \/>\nOctober 19-20, 2011<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geneva, Switzerland &#8212; Nassim Nicholas Taleb, philosopher, essayist, statistician, and bestselling author (&#8220;The Black Swan&#8221;, &#8220;Fooled by Randomness&#8221;) will be a keynote speaker at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable in Washington, D.C. He will address the participants at the opening conference plenary, titled: <em>Systems, Stability and Sustainability<\/em>. The panel will explore the benefits for investors and financiers arising from the use of better quality and wider &#8220;lenses&#8221; that give greater depth, breadth and granularity to their understanding of a wider range of risks, as well as employment of &#8220;clocks&#8221; which heighten their appreciation of the temporal nature of risks.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassim Taleb, author of &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217;, confirmed to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t18.03.2011<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Share<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRonald Reagan Building and International Trade CentreWashington&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-feeds","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}