Biographical Statements: Speakers
and Moderators
Dr. Brian FISHER
Executive Director, ABARE, Canberra, Australia
Brian Fisher was first appointed ABARE's Executive Director in November
1988. During 1984-85, Dr Fisher was Chief Research Economist, then Deputy
Director, of the former Bureau of Agricultural Economics. He was appointed
to the chair in Agricultural Economics at the University of Sydney in
1985, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University
in 1987, and Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Development in 2003.
Dr Fisher has been the government board member on a number of statutory
corporations.
Dr Fisher was engaged as one of the experts completing the socioeconomic
assessment of climate change for the United Nation's Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) second and Third Assessment Reports.
He has recently been appointed as a convening lead author on the Fourth
Assessment Report. Dr Fisher played an integral role in the international
climate change negotiations as economic adviser to Australia's negotiating
team in the lead up to, and at, the third Conference of the Parties
in Kyoto. He fulfilled that role at the 4th, 5th and 6th Conferences
of the Parties of the UNFCCC.
Dr Fisher has published over 200 papers and monographs. He received
the Farrer Memorial Medal in August 1994, became a fellow of the Academy
of Social Sciences in Australia in November 1995 and was awarded the
Public Service Medal in 2002. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics
from the University of Sydney.
