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Fisher is the son of Roger D. Fisher and Caroline (Speer) Fisher and the brother of Elliott Fisher. He was born in Washington District of Columbia His family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1958 when his father first joined the faculty of Harvard Law School.
Fisher was educated at the Shady Hill School (1960-1971) and Concord Academy (1971-1974) in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1980 and from the Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1985.
He is also a former executive at BlackRock and a former senior official at the United States. Treasury and the Federal Reserve. In 1956.
After law school, he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York legal department in 1985, where he served until 1989. From 1989 to 1990 Fisher was seconded to the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel, Switzerland, where he served as the secretary of the committee on inter-bank netting schemes of the Central Banks of the G-10 countries.
In 1990, he joined the foreign exchange department of the New York Federal
From 1995 to 2001, he served as executive vice president of the New York Federation and as manager of the system open market account, responsible to the federal open market committee of the Federal Reserve System for the conduct of domestic monetary and foreign currency operations. In 1998, Fisher played a catalytic role in the resolution of the long-term capital management hedge fund.
From 2001 to 2003, he served as under secretary of the United States. Treasury for domestic finance. In 2004, Fisher joined the asset management firm BlackRock.
From 2005 to 2007, he served as chairman of BlackRock Asia.
In 2007, he became co-head, and in 2009 the head, of BlackRock’s Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. In 2013, he stepped down as head of the fixed income and serves as a senior director of the BlackRock investment institute. From 2007 to 2013, he served as non-executive director of the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom.
While at the Treasury, Fisher served a member of the board of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), on the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB), established by Congress after the events of September 11, 2001 and as the Treasury representative to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
