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Education
BScAgr (Hons I),
University of Sydney
PhD, University of Sydney
Additional Information
Dr. Brian Fisher joined CRA International in October 2006. Prior to this he was executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE). He was first appointed executive director of ABARE in 1988. Dr. Fisher left the Bureau briefly for a senior position in the Federal Department of Primary Industries and Energy before returning to ABARE as executive director in 1995. In addition to his position with ABARE, he was recently an associate commissioner of the productivity commission and the chairman of the prime minister’s Exports and Infrastructure Taskforce. Dr Fisher has been the government board member on a number of statutory corporations and has published over 250 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. | 