Richard W. Fisher is President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and former Vice Chairman of Kissinger McLarty Associates. He served as Chairman of The American Assembly, where he conceived of The Next Generation Project.

Mr. Fisher is Co-Chairman of the Madison Council's International Committee of the Library of Congress and Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations Congressional Roundtable on International Trade & Economics. He is a member of the American Council on Germany and of the Trilateral Commission. Mr. Fisher is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College at Oxford University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also served on numerous public service boards in Dallas, such as Goodwill, the Boys Club, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University.

Ambassador Fisher served as Deputy United States Trade Representative in the Clinton Administration, and prior to joining the government, he was Managing Partner of FCM Investors and Fisher Ewing Partners. From 1975 to 1987 he was with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Ambassador Fisher was educated at the U.S. Naval Academy, Harvard (B.A. cum laude), Oxford, and Stanford (M.B.A.). He has taught and lectured widely at universities including the University of Texas and Harvard, in addition to serving on the advisory committees of several colleges, graduate schools, and institutes, including chairing the Board of Trustees of the Institute of the Americas at the University of California at San Diego and the Stanford University Business School Trust.