Trevor Fisk

Who is Trevor Fisk?

Trevor Fisk was a British student union leader, executive at British Steel and a trailblazer in the field of healthcare marketing in the United States

Fisk was elected President of the London School of Economics Student Union in 1964, then attended the Inns of Court. He was elected as President of the National Union of Students in 1968, as a moderate candidate, defeating the then-radical Jack Straw. During his term in office, he toured South Africa, where he supported British academics taking up posts in white-only universities. He launched a campaign for the reform of British universities, but attracted criticism for asking students not to attend protests against the Vietnam War, and opposed removing a "no politics" clause from the NUS constitution. In 1969, he became the only incumbent President of the NUS to lose a bid for re-election, being defeated by Straw.

Fisk was also assistant to the General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, and was a member of the Fabian Society.

After leaving student politics he worked in the United Kingdom for the British Steel Corporation. Fisk emigrated with his family to the United States in 1978 where he was a trailblazer in the field of healthcare marketing. He first worked for Cooper Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey and then for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He was also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania on Health Care Marketing.