Kaspar Fischer graduated from ETH Zürich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, with a MA in Computer Science (2001). He received a scholarship for the European Graduate Program "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation" and completed his PhD at ETH's Institute for Theoretical Computer Science in 2004.

Before joining ICAR, Kaspar had been working for several IT companies and clients as a programmer, project coordinator, and advisor in the field of New Media Technologies and Content Management Systems. Alongside his studies, he contributed to two Swiss development aid projects of the "Coopération Cameroun – Jura – Suisse" to manage vaccinations and evaluate patient-doctor communication in regard to upcoming AIDS therapies. In July 2007, he completed a part-time continuing education in Applied Statistics at the University of Bern.

At ICAR, Kaspar works as an IT specialist in the institute's ICT team, which assists in training developing countries in the areas of asset recovery, anti-corruption, knowledge and intelligence management, information security, and process improvement.