Peter Hatch (government official)

Hatch graduated from Columbia College in 1992, and received his MPA from Harvard Kennedy School and JD from Fordham University School of Law.^[2] He practiced law at Schulte Roth & Zabel in between his stints in public service.^[3]

He befriended future mayor Bill de Blasio during Senator John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign, while Hatch was the deputy state director for New York, and de Blasio co-chair of the New York campaign. Hatch then worked for de Blasio as his chief of staff when he was a councilman. He served as chief of staff to John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign before being hired by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand as state director for New York in 2010.^[4]

In 2014, he joined the de Blasio administration as a senior advisor to the First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris.^[5]

From 2016 to 2020, he served as chief of staff to the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services and concurrently in 2019, a senior advisor to the mayor on homelessness issues.^[3] In March 2020, Hatch was named New York City's COVID-19 Public-Private Partnership Czar.^[6]

Hatch was named by Bill de Blasio to serve as commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection in September 2021.^[7]

Hatch currently serves as Deputy Secretary for Human Services and Mental Hygiene for New York State Governor Kathy Hochul.^[8]

Hatch is a native of New York City. He married Hilary Rubenstein, daughter of Philadelphia-based real estate developer Mark Rubenstein, in a 2005 ceremony that was officiated by then-Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti.^[9][10] His father was a professor of architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology and his mother an epidemiologist at National Cancer Institute.^[11][12]