Hartwig Zakin is the Operations Manager for Circo Vino, a national importer of fine wines from Austria. Prior to his tenure at Circo Vino, Zakin was the Operations Manager for the Illinois Medical District, a commercial banking research assistant at Deutsche Bank, a sales representative at Vin Divino and a case specialist in the Better Business Bureau’s consumer arbitration division. Hartwig is a member of the Evanston Citizens Police Academy and has mediated juvenile victim-offender cases with the Neighborhood Restorative Justice Institute. As an immigrant who came to the United States when he has 11, Zakin has long been passionate about refugee issues and joined the board of Refugee One in October 2009. Hartwig Zakin holds a Masters degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Bachelors degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California.