Peter Hatch

Peter A. Hatch is an American government official who served as the Commissioner of New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Biography Hatch graduated from Columbia College in 1992, and received his MPA from Harvard Kennedy School and JD from Fordham University School of Law. He practiced law at Schulte Roth & Zabel in between his stints in public service. 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. In 2014, he joined the de Blasio administration as a senior advisor to the First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris.