Todd Fisher has served in a wide variety of leadership roles in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.  He is currently a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Progress. 

Up until March 2025, he served as the founding Chief Investment Officer for the CHIPS Program Office (CPO) accountable to the Secretary of Commerce and responsible for creating the investment office and investing $39 billion to strengthen the US semiconductor industry. He previously led implementation of the $3 billion American Rescue Plan programs at the Economic Development Administration, including the Build Back Better Regional Challenge and the Good Jobs Challenge.

Prior to joining the Department of Commerce in 2021, Fisher had a 30-year career in the investment industry, including 25 years at KKR & Co. Inc., a global publicly traded investment firm, where he was Chief Administrative Officer, chaired the Management and Risk Committees, founded and oversaw KKR’s Real Estate business, and was a long-standing private equity partner and investor (including a founding member of the European business).

After leaving KKR at the end of 2017, Fisher shifted his career to public and non-profit work. He was a fellow in Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative during 2018 and then became Managing Director of Scalable Solutions at Year Up, a workforce-oriented non-profit.

Fisher holds a Bachelor’s in Biology from Brown University, a Master’s in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on many boards over the course of his career, including 12 private sector boards, the Brown University Corporation, the SAIS Board of Advisors (Chair), the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the US Holocaust Memorial Council, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.