Bruce Fisher

Bruce comes to StrategyCorp with 40 years of experience in politics and government.  He’s a veteran of US Presidential, Congressional, State, and local campaigns, and has long tenure as a Senior Administrator in New York State.

His expertise in political consulting, regional governance, economic development, public and municipal finance, and innovative service-delivery models makes him a significant hew asset for our firm. Immediately prior to joining StrategyCorp he was the Director for the Center for Economic and Policy Studies and Professor of Economics at Buffalo State University in Buffalo, New York.

During his career in government, Bruce was Deputy County Executive in Erie County, New York, from 2000 – 2007, where he directed a successful hospital system restructuring, the first utility-scale brownfield wind farm in the US, and co-created (with Canadian colleagues) the Binational Regional Economic Development Forum that brought the Province of Ontario and the State of New York together.

Bruce has been a political campaign consultant to two US Presidential candidates, four US Senators, and many Members of the House of Representatives. He served on former President Barack Obama’s urban policy advisory committee.

Bruce is also the published author of Where the Streets are Paved with Rust: Essays from the Broken Heartland (Foundlings Press, 2018), Borderland: Essays from the US-Canadian Divide (State University of New York Press. Albany, 2012), and many op-eds and commentaries for leading US newspapers including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, National Public Radio, and was for many years an election-night commentator for NBC news affiliates.

Bruce holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Illinois, where he was a University Fellow, and a Juris Doctor from SUNY Buffalo.