Richard Hatzfeld

Director, Communications

Richard Hatzfeld is the communications director at the Sabin Vaccine Institute and oversees all communications activities related to Sabin’s vaccine development and advocacy efforts, as well as the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases.

For the past 15 years, Mr. Hatzfeld has worked in international market development for both corporate and nonprofit organizations and has direct work and living experience in Africa, Asia and Europe. Prior to joining Sabin, Mr. Hatzfeld was a senior consultant at APCO Worldwide, where he specialized in developing public-private partnerships, corporate responsibility platforms and strategic communication on behalf of major health, technology and international development clients.

He came to APCO from Discovery Communications, where he was the Africa Program Officer for the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership. In this capacity, he established offices in Nigeria, Ghana and Angola and worked with host governments and corporate partners such as Chevron and The Coca-Cola Company to build out video learning centers in West and Southern Africa.

Prior to that, Mr. Hatzfeld led a major health program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on behalf of Population Services International, USAID and the Congolese Ministry of Health that built the first family planning, maternal/child health and HIV/AIDS counseling network in the country.

Before his work in the nonprofit sector, Mr. Hatzfeld was a senior marketing manager with Sprint Telecom, where he oversaw product marketing for Sprint’s $400 million remote access service, and began his career in Southeast Asia as a marketing manager with Nabisco International. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in History and French Literature from Grinnell College and his Master of Business Administration from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.