Alice, the eldest, works as a journalist on the Financial Times; Honor was an assistant at Downing Street, having been David Cameron's diary secretary.

Fishburn is the chairman of Bluecube Technology Solutions Ltd,[2] and Mulvaney Capital Management Ltd.[citation needed] He is on the board of GFI Group, the European subsidiary of a Wall Street broker, BGC.

[5] For 10 years he chaired the committee for the foremost private library and research system, that of Harvard University's schools and faculties.

Act (1992) to permit district nurses and health visitors to independently prescribe from a limited formulary, thus breaking the doctors’ monopoly.

Fishburn served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Timothy Sainsbury in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department of Trade.

During his terms in Parliament, he continued as Associate Editor of The Economist producing 13 annual editions of its publication The World in..., which is published in 15 languages.