Mr Christopher Fisher

Mr Christopher Fisher became President of the Council in 2009 having previously served as a member of Council for a number of years. Since 2006 he has been a partner in Penfida Partners, a firm providing independent financial advice to pension fund trustees. He also serves as non-executive member of the UK Board of the Bank of Ireland. He has spent most of his career in investment banking, principally at Lazard, where he was a managing director until 2003, and subsequently at KPMG, where he was vice chairman, corporate finance until 2006.

He is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, which he attended as a Kennedy Scholar, and of the University of Reading, where he served as President of the Students' Union.