Steven Fisher (born 1965) is a British

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

who was British Ambassador to the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...

and

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

2009–2015. Before that post he served as the Deputy Ambassador in

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

and

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

Early life and education

Steven Fisher was born in

Tiddington, Warwickshire Tiddington is a village in Warwickshire, England, within the civil parish of Stratford-upon-Avon, about northeast of Stratford town centre. It is located south of the River Avon, and is connected to the historic town by Tiddington Road (B4086 ...

, just outside Stratford. Steven attended

Wadham College, Oxford Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...

, where he studied Modern History and French. After he graduated from Oxford University, he worked for

Andersen Consulting Accenture plc is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting. A ''Fortune'' Global 500 company, it reported revenues of $61.6 billion in 2022. Accentur ...

for five years.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Steven joined the

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(FCO) in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

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 Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. 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

as the Deputy Ambassador. In January 2006 he moved to

, again as Deputy Ambassador. From December 2009 to September 2015 he was Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Following a home posting working on human rights policy (including Modern Slavery, Freedom of the Media and Freedom of Religion or Belief), he spent several months learning Romanian prior to a posting as HM Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova (Sept 2019 - ).

References

FISHER, Steven Mark
''Who's Who 2016'', A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Steven Mark 1965 births Living people People educated at Warwick School Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Accenture people Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Dominican Republic Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Haiti