
Dr. Fisher has served on the board of directors and as vice president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. He is on the editorial boards of several journals in the field and has been a member of the National Science Foundation's panel for the program on global environmental change. He has consulted for the World Bank, the United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research, the National Academy of Sciences and the Exxon Company, U.S.A.
Dr. Fisher has published extensively. His book Resource and Environmental Economics, published by Cambridge University Press in 1981, is considered a leading reference text.
Dr. Fisher received an A.B. and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.