Steven Fisher (diplomat)

Steven Mark Fisher
Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Haiti
In office 2009–2015
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	Ian Worthington
Succeeded by	Christopher Campbell
Personal details
Born	(1965-02-07) 7 February 1965 Stratford
Nationality	British

Steven Fisher (born 1965) is a British diplomat who was British Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Haiti 2009–2015. Before that post he served as the Deputy Ambassador in Venezuela and Hungary.

Early life and education

Steven Fisher was born in Tiddington, Warwickshire, just outside Stratford in the heart of central England. His father Dennis Fisher is a retired Police Detective. Steven attended boarding school at Warwick.

After school, Steven attended Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied Modern History and French. After he graduated from Oxford University, he worked for Andersen Consulting for five years.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Steven joined the Foreign Office (FCO) in London in 1993 and worked in the European Union Department on a range of economic and trade related issues. His first overseas post came in 1995, when he was posted to Singapore. After working there for three years, he returned to London in August 1998. After four years of working in London, in 2002, Steven was posted to Venezuela as the Deputy Ambassador. In January 2006 he moved to Hungary, again as Deputy Ambassador.

In December 2009 he took up the post of Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and concurrently non-resident Ambassador to Haiti. In April 2015 the FCO announced that he was to be replaced and would transfer to another Diplomatic Service appointment.^[1]

References

• FISHER, Steven Mark, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015)