| Todd Fisher has served in a variety of leadership roles in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He currently serves as Senior Director Strategic Initiatives and Economic Opportunity for Governor Sherrill in the State of New Jersey, responsible for implementing her priorities in energy, housing, and permitting reform, as well as economic strategy and private sector engagement. Prior to this role, he worked at the US Department of Commerce as the founding Chief Investment Officer for the CHIPS Program Office, responsible for creating the investment office and investing $39 billion to strengthen the US semiconductor industry. He was previously Program Director for the $3 billion American Rescue Plan programs at the Economic Development Administration. Prior to joining the US government, Fisher had a 30-year career in the investment industry, including 25 at KKR, a global publicly traded investment firm, where he was a longstanding private equity partner, Chief Administrative Officer, chair of the Management and Risk Committees, and founder of KKR’s Real Estate business. He made a proactive shift in his career to public and non-profit sector work in 2018, becoming a fellow at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative and then a Managing Director at Year Up, a workforce-oriented non-profit. He has a BA from Brown University, an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and an MBA from the Wharton School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on many boards, including 12 private sector boards, the Brown University Corporation, the SAIS Board of Advisors (chair), the US Holocaust Memorial Council, OPIC (the predecessor to the DFC), and multiple education oriented organizations. In 2025, he was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Progress (co-writing a substack called Factory Settings) and a Research Fellow at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School. |  |