Jerome Hatfield

Jerome Hatfield has more than 30 years of national and international experience in leading teams in the fields of homeland security, public safety, law enforcement, and emergency management. He currently serves as senior vice president for integrated health, safety, and response services at Kean University (NJ).

During the Obama administration, he received a presidential appointment to serve at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as FEMA Region 2 administrator. He was responsible for more than 550 federal employees in areas of prevention, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery for 32 million residents located in New York, New Jersey, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hatfield was the federal lead for one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history, Hurricane Sandy ($35 billion). He was federal consequence management lead for the Pope Francis visit, Super Bowl XLVIII, and United Nations General Assemblies. Additionally, he presided as chair to the Federal Security Committee for over 1,000 federal tenants at the World Trade Center.