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Paul Fisher
Paul Fisher was a policy-maker at the Bank of England for 26 years, serving on its Monetary Policy Committee, interim Financial Policy Committee and the board of the Prudential Regulation Authority, as well as on several international committees. He was executive director for markets from 2009–14, executive director for insurance supervision 2014–15 and deputy head of the PRA 2014–16.
During his time in the PRA, Fisher was responsible for co-ordinating the UK central bank’s work on climate change and, subsequently, he was a member of the European Union’s High-level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance 2017 and the UK Green Finance Taskforce 2017/18.
Fisher now has a diversified career of non-executive, consultancy and academic roles, including: serving as chair of the London Bullion Market Association; non-executive director at the UK Debt Management Office; consultancy work and technical assistance for central banks; and teaching on a comparative central banking course for Warwick University Business School.
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Articles by Paul Fisher
Lessons from the banking turmoil of 2023
Guardrails on capital, liquidity, deposit insurance, resolution, digitalisation and disintermediation need a rethink
The predicament of bloated central bank balance sheets
Swollen balance sheets carry significant risks for combating inflation, ensuring financial stability and preserving central bank credibility, independence and effectiveness. How can central banks reduce them?
Climate change and the role for central banks
Gavin Bingham, Andrew Large and Paul Fisher explain how climate change affects central banks and the competing tensions it raises in relation to policy responses
Ukraine: the challenges for central banks
Rules on the weaponisation of money would help to protect a ‘public good’ amid geopolitical splits in a testing environment for central banks, write Gavin Bingham, Paul Fisher and Andrew Large
Digital money and central banks
Central banks must reflect on the monetary policy, regulatory and financial stability implications from crypto assets, stablecoins and CBDCs to stay relevant in the digital age of money
The ‘golden age’ of central banking has passed
Central banks face multi-faceted challenges and weakened autonomy amid highly polarised inflation expectations
The Covid crisis, central banks and the future
Crisis responses have had positive initial outcomes, but also exacerbated significant underlying challenges that raise concerns related to exit strategies and the future for central banks
Education, education, education: designing a master’s in global central banking
The BoE’s Paul Fisher says there is a growing need for all-round central banking education