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2007 SUN &
STAR LEGACY AWARD
RICHARD W. FISHER
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Richard W. Fisher,
President and CEO of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas,
has been active in U.S.-Japan
relations throughout his life, both
in his business career and through
his work in the United States
Government. He has contributed
significantly to U.S.-Japan relations
and specifically to Texas-Japan
relations in meaningful and lasting
ways.
From 1997 to 2001,
Mr. Fisher
served as
Deputy United States Trade Representative
with the rank of Ambassador.
He oversaw trade
policy for Asia and the Pacific, as
well as the Americas. Under an
agreement struck between President
Clinton and Prime Minister
Hashimoto, he chaired the American
delegation for the Enhanced
Initiative on Competition and
Deregulation of the Japanese Economy
for three years. This initiative
resulted in significant changes in
the structure of Japan's
telecommunications, housing, energy,
health care, legal, retailing, and
financial sectors.
In
the late 1980s, Mr. Fisher was
instrumental in the development of
the
Richard Fisher Family – Nomura
Securities Endowment for Japanese
Studies
at St. Mark’s School
of Texas. He secured funding for
the program by winning a handshake
bet with a prominent Tokyo business
leader, and then worked with the
school’s administration to establish
the groundwork for a Japanese
language and culture program that
would be unique in the State of
Texas.
Mr. Fisher began his
career in 1975 at the private bank
of Brown Brothers
Harriman & Co., and then served as
Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of
the Treasury in the Carter
administration.
From 1987-1997, he was Managing
Partner of Fisher Capital Management
and Fisher Ewing Partners. He
resided in Tokyo in 1990, where he
established lasting friendships and
significant business relationships.
Subsequently, Mr. Fisher was Vice
Chairman of Kissinger McLarty
Associates before assuming the
office of President and CEO of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in
April 2005.
Mr. Fisher attended
the U.S. Naval Academy ('67-'69),
graduated with honors from Harvard
in economics ('71), read Latin
American politics at Oxford
('72-'73), and received an MBA from
Stanford University ('75). He has
been married for 31 years to Nancy
Miles Collins. They have four
children: Anders, Alison, James, and
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