Peter R Fisher

Peter R. Fisher is the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy and will be teaching his course The Arrythmia of Finance in the Spring of 2026.

From 2005 to 2013, Peter held a variety of roles at BlackRock including head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management and chairman of Asia.  From 2014 through 2021, he taught at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  From 2022 to 2024 he returned to BlackRock, working in the Strategy function and leading the firm’s global retirement initiative.  He is currently a part-time senior advisor to BlackRock’s chief financial officer.

Prior to joining BlackRock, from 2001 to 2003, Peter served as the Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Domestic Finance.  From 1985 to 2001 he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, concluding his service as an executive vice president and manager of the Federal Reserve System Open Market Account. 

Peter has previously served as a non-executive director of the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom, as a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Agence France Trésor of the French Treasury, as a member of the Board of Directors of AIG, as a member of the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Peter currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He received a JD degree from Harvard Law School in 1985 and a BA in history from Harvard College in 1980.