Eric Fisher was born at New York in 1954 and raised in the Hudson Valley. He served his country in the Peace Corps in Morocco. He majored in philosophy at Princeton and received his doctorate in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He worked first as an economist for three years at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. He was an assistant professor at Cornell University, a tenured associate professor at The Ohio State University, and a tenured full professor at Cal Poly. Eric has been married to Kathryn Marshall, whom he met in graduate school, for 31 years. They have lived in San Luis Obispo for sixteen years. Their daughter Jane is a management consultant at Boston, and their son Marshall is a software engineer in the Bay Area. Raised near fabled Eastern trout waters, Eric has caught trout on a fly all over America and in Sweden, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. In the last two years, he walked on a pilgrimage across France and Spain, and he rode his e-bike from the bottom of Manhattan up to the Canadian border. He’s honored to be Inducted into SLO RAM