Alan Fisher

President and CEO, iCarnegie Inc.

Dr. Alan Fisher is President and CEO of iCarnegie Inc., a subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University. iCarnegie provides higher education management services, including web-based courses on software development, to institutions and employers worldwide. Prior to pursing this project full time, Allan served until 1999 as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. During that time, he and Jane Margolis carried out a program of research and intervention that increased the proportion of women entering the computer science program from 7% in 1995 to 42% in 2000. Their work is described in their book, Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, published in 2002 by MIT Press. Allan received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Princeton University, studied at the University of Cambridge, and received a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He serves on a number of advisory committees for projects and organizations working toward diversity in technical fields, including the Anita Borg Institute and the National Research Council Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.