Background
Fisher, Richard Welton was born on March 18, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Leslie Welton and Magnhild (Andersen) Fisher.
Fisher, Richard Welton was born on March 18, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Leslie Welton and Magnhild (Andersen) Fisher.
Student, United States Naval Academy. Bachelor cum laude, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971. Student, Oxford University, England.
Master of Business Administration, Stanford University, California, 1975.
Assistant to Robert Roosa Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, New York City, 1975-1977, senior manager, 1983-1987. Executive assistant to secretary United States Department Treasury, Washington, 1977-1979. Managing partner Fisher Capital Management, Dallas, 1987—1997, Fisher Ewing Partners (Value Partners, Ltd.), Dallas, 1987—1997.
Deputy United States Trade Republican Executive Office of the President, Washington, 1997—2001. Vice-chairman Kissinger McLarty Associates, 2001—2005. President, Chief Executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank Dallas, since 2005.
Chairman Stanford University School Business Trust, Palo Alto, 1982—1984, American Assembly, New York. Adjunct professor L.B.J. School, University Texas, 1995—1997. Member Trilateral Commission, 2002.
Board of directors, member Executive Committee Dallas Museum Art, 1985-1989. Board directors Goodwill Industries Dallas, 1989-1998, treasurer, since 1991, chairman, since 1993. Board dirs.Boys Club Dallas, 1984-1984, Dallas Assembly, 1983-1997, Russian American Enterprise Fund, 1993-1998.
Active Dallas Committee Foreign Rels., chairman, 1987-1998;director foreign policy issues Perot Presidential Campaign, 1992. Member visitors committee Kennedy School Government and Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, since 1992. Democratic candidate United States Senate, 1994.
Member Institute Americans (chairman 1987-1993), Inter-American Dialogue (Executive Committee since 1992), American Council on Germany (board directors 1985-1994), Philosophical Society Texas, Harvard Club, Petroleum Club.
Married Nancy Collins, September 8, 1973. Children: Andersen, Alison, James Leslie, Texana.