Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk proposes that financial risk management broaden its approach, maintaining quantification where possible, but incorporating uncertainty. The author shows that by using broad quantification techniques, and using reason as the guiding principle, practitioners can see a more holistic and complete picture.

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Nick Firoozye is a Managing Director at Nomura International and heads a global team in cross-product derivatives research. He has many years of experience in a variety of research and trading roles in both buy-side and sell-side firms including Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Citadel, Sanford Bernstein and Lehman Brothers. Known for his work in Quantitative Strategy, Nick's area of expertise ranges from asset allocation models and macro-financial forecasting to systematic and RV trading. Previously, he was Head of European Rates Strategy, and covered the Eurozone crisis, rescue packages and possible break-up, working closely with the risk management and legal teams. Dr Firoozye was an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Courant Institute, New York University. He speaks and writes frequently on financial markets and economics issues. His team was recently awarded Global Capital's Derivatives Research House of 2015, and he was co-author of one of five papers shortlisted for the 2012 Wolfson Economics Prize on the breakup of the Eurozone.

Fauziah Ariff has extensive experience in management consulting and business strategy, with a career encompassing KPMG, Ernst and Young, and American Express, together with investment management in a private equity firm. In both her consulting and corporate roles, she conducted industry studies, performed market and financial assessments and worked on the development, negotiationand set-up of several new business ventures, including projects involving knowledge and process management. As a Director in American Express's Interactive Enterprise Development and Technology divisions, she invented several business method patents which employ and correlate multiple information types across a number of data sources. Fauziah holds a Graduate Diploma in Law, a Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of Southern California.

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1. Definitions, Applications, Methods and Tools 2. The Mathematics of Uncertainty 3. The New Framework and Approach 4. Case studies 5. Conclusions