BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES FOR RICHARD D. FISHER, JR.

Since February 2000 Richard D. Fisher Jr. has served as a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, an organization dedicated to reporting the truth about communist and former communist states. For the foundation Fisher edits their China Brief newsletter and analyses strategic-military issues regarding the People's Republic of China.

From August 1999 until January 2000, Fisher served as a Senior Analyst for the House Republican Policy Committee led Congressman Christopher Cox (R-CA). For the Committee, Fisher followed strategic issues pertaining to the People's Republic of China and helped to implement the agenda of the House Select Committee for U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China. This Select Committee and its report served as a rare example of bi-partisan congressional
leadership, informing the nation of the growing challenge from the PRC.

Prior to joining the House Policy Committee, Fisher served as Director the Asian Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation - the leading conservative think-tank in Washington, D.C. For The Heritage Foundation, from 1983 to 1999, Mr. Fisher wrote scores of studies on challenges to American foreign policy in Asia. He has written and commented on such diverse countries as the Philippines, the Koreas, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, New Zealand, Australia, and Taiwan. He has observed elections in Cambodia, the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan. In recent years he has produced many important studies on the modernization of China's military and its implications for Asia and the United States. His research on China's military has taken him to China, Russia and Taiwan, and he is consulted regularly by the Congress and the media on Chinese military concerns.

Mr. Fisher is a frequent commentator on many Asian issues for radio and television and has given testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. House of Representatives International Relations Committee and the Platform Committee of the Republican Party. His articles have appeared in The National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Interest, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Jane's Intelligence Review, World Airpower Journal, The Japan Times, The Taipei Times, and The Washington Times.

Mr. Fisher studied at Eisenhower College in New York, where he received a Bachelors Degree with honors in 1981. He is married to the former Nancy Bodager and they have two sons, Ben and Sam. They reside in Alexandria, Virginia.